translateSPSS2R (version 1.0.0)

xpssFrame: Creates a xpssFrame Object

Description

xpssFrame creates a dataset as an xpssFrame object from a local file.

Usage

xpssFrame(x, ...)

Arguments

x

as character string with the name of the file.

...

Arguments to pass on read.spss() from foreign.

Details

x the input data should be of the format .sav.

The SPSS dataset contains the following attributes: names, codepage, row.names, FILTER, TEMPORAY, SPLIT_FILE, DO_IF, SELECT_IF, WEIGHTS, class

	Attribute	Type
Contain		names
atomic character or character vector	Name of the variable in the dataset
codepage	atomic numeric	ANSI code, which describe the encoding
	row.names	atomic numeric or numeric vector
row ID's		FILTER
atomic logical or condition	Filtercondition or FALSE if xpssFilter is off
TEMPORARY	atomic logical	Logical statement if xpssTemporary is on or off
	SPLIT_FILE	atomic logical
Split-File condition or FALSE if xpssSplitFile is off		DO_IF
atomic logical or condition	Do-If-condition or FALSE if xpssDoIf is off
SELECT_IF	atomic logical or condition	Select-If-condition or FALSE if xpssSelectIf is off
	WEIGHTS	atomic character
* will be implemented in a following update		class
atomic character or character	atomic or vector of names of classes the datasets inherits from.

Variable attributes are stored in the variable itself. A variable can have the following attributes: defined.MIS, MIS, value.labels, variable.label, varname

	Attribute	Type
Contain		defined.MIS
Atomic numerics or atomic characters, respectively a numeric vector or character vector	Values which specify missing values
MIS	list with user-defined missings	POS contain the position of the user-defined missing, VAL the value of the user defined-missing
	value.labels	Named numeric or named character
Value and label for a specific variable		variable.label
Atomic character	Label of the variable
varname	Atomic character	Name of the variable in the datasheet

See Also

read.spss as.xpssFrame

Examples

## Not run: 
# data <- xpssFrame(x="Testdata_1.sav")
# ## End(Not run)