Import SPSS data with foreign (1)

All great things come in pairs. Where foreign provided read.dta() to read Stata data, there's also read.spss() to read SPSS data files. To get a data frame, make sure to set to.data.frame = TRUE inside read.spss().

In this exercise, you'll be working with socio-economic variables from different countries (Source: Quantative Data Analysis in Education). The SPSS data is in a file called international.sav, which is in your working directory. You can also download it here if you want to play around with it some more.

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Intermediate Importing Data in R

Exercise instructions

Import the data file "international.sav" and have R convert it to a data frame. Store this data frame as demo.
Create a boxplot of the gdp variable of demo.

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Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# foreign is already loaded

# Import international.sav as a data frame: demo


# Create boxplot of gdp variable of demo

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Intermediate Importing Data in R

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