On 05/11/06 15:42, David Kaplan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Because I'm new to R and trying to move off of SPSS, I have another question.
> I
> downloaded the "Foreign" package which I understand reads in various datasets
> from
> programs such as SPSS and SAS. There isn't much documentation that I can find
> regarding the specifics of this in the online docs, but I assume that it is
> like
Look in the help files for the package.
> read.table. So, here is what I wrote and here is what I got.
>
> bw2 <- read.spss("c:\birthwt.sav")
> Error: couldn't find function "read.spss"
>
> Any thoughts?
You need to install the package, not just download it.
Then you need to load it into your R session:
library("foreign")
Did you do that?
--
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
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