Re: finding new developers

[Alan Mead]

On 11/9/2015 3:15 PM, Nigel Brown wrote:

In the context of the FAQ then that says “If you want an import/export filter or some other feature to help PSPP complement your favourite program, then please talk to us about it.”

Could we talk about an export filter to R (I like using PSPP for data clean up but R for factor analysis) and an import filter from R output? A configurable export/import filter to help PSPP complement R would be my request in the context of the FAQ sentiment.

Nigel,

I agree that I think SPSS/PSPP has some unique value for data cleaning. I'm sure you can get things accomplished in R but I think it's easier in SPSS/PSPP.  (Although R has more varied missing data treatments.)

But what exactly do you mean about exporting to R?  R already has the foreign package that reads SPSS SAV files, so go ahead and do whatever you want with the data and then use foreign to read the data into R.

The enormous irony is that the foreign package is built on code from PSPP that Ben wrote.

If the foreign package needs updating, then bug that developer.

-Alan

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