Re: [Gretl-users] SPSS data in gretl
I have tried the importer for SPSS files, and have not found any problems.
It works just fine.
It would be nice to have the value labels included as a column in the
variable list, as in SPSS, instead of output as a string code table to a
text file. But I guess it is harder.
However, I find this SPSS importer very useful. Thanks a lot.
Regarding my studies of C I am making good progress. I am beginning to be
fluent in C (or at least make myself understood), so I hope I can start
contributiong C code sometime at the beginning of next year.
Best regards,
Andreas
gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu skrev 2008-11-20 22:37:40 :
Hello all,
There's a fair amount of large-scale survey data available on
the
net in SPSS format. Over the last couple of years several of my
students have wanted to make use of such data. Up to now I've
helped them out by importing from SPSS to R, then exporting as CSV
for gretl.
This works OK but it's not very convenient and it loses some
useful information (mainly, descriptive labels for variables and
'value labels' for categorical variables). So I've recently added
to gretl an importer for SPSS .sav files. I've tested on a
variety of such files, but if anyone is in the habit of handling
SPSS data and could give the importer a work-out, that would be
great.
Allin Cottrell
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