[R] Manipulating the output from read.spss

[kjetil halvorsen]

use read.spss with to.data.frame=TRUE, then
na.omit on the result. This assumes that the missing values are signes
as such in spss, so read.spss imports them correctly.

Kjetil Halvorsen


SMarkandsusan at aol.com wrote:
> 
> This seems like a problem that others may have run into before. I got a
> merged dataset from SPSS. It has ~750 columns X 3400 rows. Most of the cell
> entries are NA. There are about 375 rows that contain observations on all
> variables and I want to extract this subset from the original list (of
> lists). I'm pretty sure I can do it programmatically in R but it will take me
> a few hours to write and debug. Before I start down that road I thought I'd
> ask if anyone had already tackled this particular type problem already.
> Thanks a lot,
> Mark Schultz
> 
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