Re: st: import SPSS files

[P chrisman <peggyc@u.washington.edu>]

I cannot verify whether the file is comma-delimited or tab-delimited as 
I do not have SPSS. If I did I would be able to do this without the 
assistance of those more knowledgeable than I. I have only Stata and R 
available to me. Thanks for the assistance and the link.
Peggy

Clive Nicholas wrote:


> You obviously didn't look at -whelp insheet- close enough! Had you done,
> you'll have noticed there are two rather neat options for -insheet-: -tab-
> and -comma-. For instance, try this:
>
> (1) make sure that your SPSS file is comma-delimited (easy enough,
>    especially when (re-)opening the .sav file in SPSS as I recall);
>
> (2) move what should now be your .csv file into "C:/data", where all your
>    Stata .dta files ought to be (if not, why not?);
>
> and
>
> (3) open up Stata and type -insheet using file.csv, comma-.
>
> More details on this and how to convert datafiles from other formats into
> Stata (and back again) are available at
>
> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/convert_pkg.htm
>
> There, you'll learn something quite important. The UCLA-ATS crew don't
> make this explicit, although Michael Blasnik did in a post to this list a
> couple of years back: Stata doesn't care where the file comes from: it
> only cares about what format it comes in! Your SPSS file could just as
> well have originated from MS Excel or Epidata. Once it's told the
> _format_, it can ably do the rest.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
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