read_spss: Read an SPSS Data File
Description
read_spss
reads data from a file stored in SPSS *.sav format. It
returns data.frame and never converts string variables to factors. Also it
prepares SPSS values/variables labels for working with
val_lab
/var_lab
functions. User-missings values are ignored.
read_spss
is simple wrapper around read.spss
function from
package foreign
.
Usage
read_spss(file, reencode = TRUE, use_missings = FALSE, ...)read_spss_to_list(file, reencode = TRUE, use_missings = FALSE, ...)
Value
read_spss
returns data.frame.
Arguments
- file
Character string: the name of the file or URL to read.
- reencode
logical: should character strings be re-encoded to the current locale.
The default is TRUE. NA means to do so in a UTF-8 locale, only. Alternatively, a
character string specifying an encoding to assume for the file.
- use_missings
logical: should information on user-defined missing
values be used to set the corresponding values to NA?
- ...
further parameters for read.spss
See Also
read.spss in package foreign
, val_lab,
var_lab
Examples
Run this codeif (FALSE) {
w = read_spss("project_123.sav") # to data.frame
}
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