You can with the routines in the memisc library. You can open a file using spss.system.file and then import a subset using subset. Look in the help pages of spss.system.file for examples.

HTH

Jan


On 09/25/2011 11:56 PM, sassorauk wrote:
Is it possible to import only certain variables from a SPSS file.

I know that read.spss in the foreign library will bring the data into R but
can I choose to important only chosen variables from the SPSS dataset to R?

Thanks for your help.

R

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