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[S] Summary: importing data from SPSS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (V.Fidler@med.rug.nl)
Mon Aug 30 07:40:07 1999
From: V.Fidler@med.rug.nl
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:28:58 +0200
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A number of people kindly offered the - rather simple - solution.
The import data dialog has an options menu which allows to choose
for 'Import value labels as Numbers'. The corresponding function
call is import.data() with "VLabelAsNumber = F" as one of the
arguments.
Many thanks to all who responded,
Vaclav Fidler
original question:
> I have a problem with importing data from an SPSS (.sav) file
> in Splus. Splus imports value labels rather than the values
> themselves. Is there a way to change this unexpected
> behaviour?
> Recoding in Splus or manually removing labels in SPSS is not
really
> an attractive option. There is a command syntax trick in SPSS for
> suppressing labels (assinging a label to a single nonexistent value
> only), but in this case Splus still imports labels only (=NA's).
>
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