read_spss {expss}

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, ...)

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

Value

read_spss returns data.frame.

See Also

read.spss in package foreign, val_lab, var_lab

Examples

## Not run: 

w = read_spss("project_123.sav") # to data.frame


## End(Not run)