Read SPSS file into R

Question

I am trying to learn R and want to bring in an SPSS file, which I can open in SPSS.

I have tried using read.spss from foreign and s

Answer 1

Turn your UNICODE in SPSS off

Open SPSS without any data open and run the code below in your syntax editor

SET UNICODE OFF.

Open the data set and resave it to remove the Unicode

read.spss('yourdata.sav', to.data.frame=T) works correctly then