Peggy,
The R program is several versions behind on the ability
to read or import SPSS programs. If you had SPSS, you
could copy and paste from the SPSS data editor to the
Stata data editor. Alternatively, you save your data
as a Stata 8 file from SPSS.
If the file is in an SPSS.sav file, ask the person
who sent it to you to provide it in an exported print or
Stata file. If the person does not have a recent version
of SPSS which can do this, have the person export an
Excel file for you (if you have Excel).
You can save that as a .raw file and insheet it into
Stata.
Regards,
Robert Yaffee
Robert A. Yaffee, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Shirley M. Ehrenkranz
School of Social Work
New York University
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----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Williams <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, July 4, 2006 11:37 pm
Subject: Re: st: import SPSS files
> At 08:26 PM 7/4/2006, Dick Campbell wrote:
> >I don't know R, but if you go to
> >http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-
> patched/library/foreign/html/00Index.html>you will find a routine
> that reads SPSS.
> >
> >At 08:08 PM 7/4/2006 Tuesday, you wrote:
> >>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
>
> Hopefully that routine will do the trick. If not I would suggest
>
> * Hunt around for some kindly friend who has Stat/Transfer, SPSS,
> or
> DBMSCopy who will do the conversion for you
>
> * Peggy's email address is at washington.edu - surely somewhere on
> campus somebody has the above programs
>
> * Splurge and buy Stat/Transfer, a very handy little program. See
>
> http://www.stattransfer.com/html/store.html
>
> Or, better yet, you might qualify for gradplan pricing ($63, at
> least
> at my school). See
>
> http://www.stata.com/order/schoollist.html
>
>
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