R can do this. It makes lab demonstrations very easy for students. -Jason
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:06:13PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > An interesting idea from the SPSS newsgroup. > > -------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- > Path: > shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail > From: "Mike Lacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.stat.spss > Subject: How to read data file directly from a URL > Date: 4 Jan 2007 14:19:05 -0800 > Organization: http://groups.google.com > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Greetings old friends--- haven't posted in a while because I'm using > SPSS less and because I've had to start using the Google groups > interface, which annoys me. > > On topic: > Is there any convenient way to use SPSS read a data file directly from > a URL? I'm thinking of something like: > > get file = "http://www.myspssdatafiles/GSS2004.sav"; . > > I suppose something like this could be implemented via OBDC, but that > doesn't seem very easy. At least Stata (R?) has the equivalent syntax, > and I was hoping the same thing could be done some way in SPSS. > > Regards, > Mike Lacy > > > -------------------- End of forwarded message -------------------- > > -- > Ben Pfaff > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://benpfaff.org > > > _______________________________________________ > pspp-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
