R noob here, I just set up RStudio and imported some .sav SPSS datasets into R Environment. But whenever I try to run tests I get an error saying the file does not exist in the current working directory. I have set the directory to desktop and even tried setting it to the exact folder my file is in and still nothing works. I have spent hours on youtube and I keep getting error after error; I even tried using ChatGPT to give me some basic code. Most of the time when I run a script it is just repeating the syntax in the console + giving me some errors. Please help, I am psychology grad student and I am sick of doing statistics on IBM products
Next, you need access to an R function that can read .sav files. That function is called read_sav() and it lives in the haven package. Assuming you have that package installed (more on that below if you don't), run:
I've done some searches but still haven't found the answer to my problem. I have a large number of .csv files which I would like to convert to SPSS files. Say I have 1000 .csv files and I would like to have them all into 1000 SPSS files. I can do this file by file by asking SPSS to read the data from .csv and that costs a few clicks. However, since I have 1000 files, I'm looking for a way to do this without having to click a few thousand times and making lots of mistakes. I'm very new to programming in general so I would appreciate some for-dummy tips. Thanks a lot!
You can iterate a set of syntax over large numbers of files specified by a wildcard or an explicit list by using the SPSSINC PROCESS FILES extension command. You write a syntax file that should be applied to each input. In that file you use the file handles or macros defined by PROCESS FILES to open a file. Then you run arbitrary syntax on it and, in your case, use the input macro to build an output file name and run a SAVE command.
Throughout the SPSS Survival Manual you will see examples of research that is taken from a number of different data files, survey.zip, error.zip, experim.zip, depress.zip, sleep.zip and staffsurvey.zip. To use these files, which are available here, you will need to download them to your hard drive or memory stick. Once downloaded you'll need to unzip the files. To do this, right click on the downloaded zip file and select 'extract all' from the menu. You can then open them within SPSS.
(To do this, start SPSS, click on the Open an existing data source button from the opening screen and then on More Files. This will allow you to search through the various directories on your computer to find where you have stored your data files. Find the file you wish to use and click Open.)
This is a manufactured data set that was created to provide suitable data for the demonstration of statistical techniques such as t-test for repeated measures, and one-way ANOVA for repeated measures. This data set refers to a fictitious study that involves testing the impact of two different types of interventions in helping students cope with their anxiety concerning a forthcoming statistics course. Students were divided into two equal groups and asked to complete a number of scales (Time 1). These included a Fear of Statistics test, Confidence in Coping with Statistics scale and Depression scale. One group (Group 1) was given a number of sessions designed to improve mathematical skills, the second group (Group 2) was subjected to a program designed to build confidence in the ability to cope with statistics. After the program (Time 2) they were again asked to complete the same scales that they completed before the program. They were also followed up three months later (Time 3). Their performance on a statistics exam was also measured.
In the Files of type list select Excel (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.xlsm) to specify that your data are in an Excel file. If you do not specify the type of file that you wish to open, your file will not appear in the list of available files. Locate and click on your file. The file name will appear in the File name field. Click Open.
Data stored in text files have extensions such as *.txt, *.dat, or *.csv. These types of data files are simple to create and are not tied to a proprietary software, so they are a popular choice for data files. While many computers will automatically open these file types in a spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel, they can be opened and edited using any text editor program.
Importing text files into SPSS is slightly different than importing data in Excel spreadsheets. There are several different patterns used to delineate the start and end of a particular variable, and SPSS must know what pattern to follow in order to read the data correctly.
Files with the extension *.txt are called text files. This file type can contain fixed-width or delimited data. A common variation for *.txt files is tab-delimited data; that is, each observation is separated by a tab (created using the Tab key on the keyboard). However, *.txt files do not always use tabs as delimiters -- in fact, *.txt files can use any character as a delimiter, including commas.
Files with the extension *.csv are called comma-delimited files; in this type of file, the observations are delimited by a comma. Traditionally, the first row of a CSV file contains the variable names (separated by a comma), and the first row of data begins on the second line. Missing values are denoted using adjacent delimiters.
If your data did not match a predefined format you will need to tell SPSS how your data is arranged, so that it understands where one column ends and the next begins. For text files, there are two types of "arrangements": delimited and fixed width. If you are importing a CSV file, you have delimited data. You will also need to tell SPSS if the datafile contains variable names. For CSV files, variable names are typically included on the first line of the data file, before the data begins; however, some datafiles do not include variable names.
We now need to tell SPSS what row our data begins on, and how many rows should be read. For CSV files, the first row typically contains the variable names, and the data values begin on line 2. However, you can choose to skip over certain lines if necessary. (One example where this occurs is in Qualtrics survey data output to CSV: The second row frequently contains variable labels, and oftentimes there may be a third row containing import IDs, and the data actually begins on line 4.) Lastly, if you only want to import a selection of cases -- for example, the first 1000 cases, or a random sample of 10% of the cases -- you can opt to do so on this screen.
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Starting with the 2020 GSS (panel and cross sectional data), the GSS team no longer provides updates to the SPSS version of the GSS data file. The SPSS format has a limitation in missing value assignments that makes difficult to implement consistent missing values. In other popular software, such as Stata and SAS, it is easy to use the same missing codes (.d, .n, .i) across all variables. Moreover, we have added new missing codes resulting from adaptation implemented to the 2020 GSS: the skip on the web mode (.s), and the unavailability in given years (.y) or current release of the data (.x). This makes the total number of missing values in the GSS data exceed the maximum of three missing values allowed in SPSS. Users can still use the GSS data in SPSS by importing the Stata and SAS files; however, SPSS users should be aware that all missing values (DK, NA, IAP, and the new missing values added in 2020) will be automatically recoded to SYSMIS (.) in SPSS after importing.
This module will explore missing data in SPSS, focusing on numeric missing data. We will describe how to indicate missing data in your raw data files, how missing data are handled in SPSS procedures, and how to handle missing data in a SPSS data transformations. There are two types of missing values in SPSS: 1) system-missing values, and 2) user-defined missing values. We will demonstrate reading data containing each kind of missing value. Both data sets are identical except for the coding of the missing values. For both data sets, suppose we did a reaction time study with 6 subjects, and the subjects reaction time was measured three times.
As you see in the results below, the N for all the simple statistics is the same, 3, which corresponds to the number of cases with complete non-missing data for trial1, trial2 and trial3. Since the N is the same for all of the correlations (i.e., 3), the N is not displayed along with the correlations in SPSS 7.5 and higher.
GNU PSPP Appendix B indicates that the .sav format can use a variety of character encodings and a variety of representations for integers and floating-point numbers. It states, "System files may use most character encodings based on an 8-bit unit." This includes ASCII, EBCDIC, and for more recent files, UTF-8. Unicode has been supported for character data in the SPSS application since version 16 (released in late 2007). The first 3 bytes of an SPSS_sav file indicate the character encoding by using the encoding to represent "$FL". Thus, hex "24 46 4c" indicates ASCII and hex "5b c6 d3" indicates EBCDIC. Integer data may be big-endian or little-endian. Floating-point data may nominally be in IEEE 754, IBM, or VAX encodings. The endianness for a SPSS_sav file can be determined from one or more of the numeric integer values in the file header record. In some cases, more explicit indication of character encoding and numeric format can be confirmed through specific tagged "records." For record types and associated tags, see File Organization starting in the next paragraph. The GNU PSPP documentation states, "The best way to determine the specific character encoding in use is to consult the character encoding record, if present, and failing that the character_code in the machine integer info record, (which, despite the name given to the record by the GNU PSPP team, has indicators for character and floating point encodings, not just for integer encoding).
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