Re: st: import SPSS files

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

Thanks so much to everyone for all the help. I really appreciate it!!
Peggy

Robert A Yaffee wrote:

> 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
>
>    
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>
> 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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