--- Frank E Harrell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charilaos Skiadas wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2007, at 12:32 PM, John Kane wrote: > > > >> I have simply moved to exporting the SPSS file to > a > >> delimited file and loading it. Unfortunately I'm > >> losing all the labelling which can be > time-consuming > >> to redo. Some of the data has something like > 10 > >> categories for a variable. > > > > I save as csv format all the time, and it offers > me a choice to use > > the labels instead of the corresponding numbers. > So you shouldn't > > have to lose that labelling. > > > > Haris Skiadas > > Department of Mathematics and Computer Science > > Hanover College > > That's a different point. The great advantage of > read.spss (and the > spss.get function in Hmisc that uses it) is that > long variable labels > are supported in addition to variable names. That's > why I like getting > SPSS or Stata files instead of csv files. I'm going > to enhance csv.get > in Hmisc to allow a row number to be specified, to > contain long variable > labels. > > Frank > Ah, I missed that point. I think it is a "little" bit less important to me but I do notice that I 'label' just about everything. Trying to rememeber what "sexy" meant 3 months ago is not always easy even when I'm reading the code. :)
The enhancement will, definitely, be appreciated. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
