[R] Import files?

[Jim Lemon]

Mark's suggestion

>If you are working with only a few SPSS datasets, I think the easiest
thing
>to do is to save the SPSS dataset as a tab-delimited (.dat) file, and
then
>read in the tab-delimited dataset using the usual read.table command.

is the one I use, but make sure that you get rid of unwanted spaces in
the
file (using 'tr' or similar), or you often get factors instead of
numeric
variables out the other end.

Jim

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