On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 13:23 +0000, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm not sure if this is an german list, so I will post in english.
The official language is English.
> I'm using R on my gentoo linux and now I got an spss .sav file. I found
> that r has a function like read.spss("file.sav") but when I try this I
> get the Error: couldn't find function "read.spss". Can anyone tell me
> what's going wrong?
read.spss() is part of the "foreign" package, which is installed as part
of the base R installation, but it is not loaded by default.
Thus, you need to use:
library(foreign)
read.spss(...)
See ?library and page 74 in "An Introduction to R".
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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