I wrote a little routine to convert multiple spss data files (as data frames)
to R data files. The code is as follows:
#
list=dir(pattern=".sav")
library(foreign)
for (i in 1:length(list)){
# The saved data frame will be dat
dat=read.spss(list[i],to.data.frame=TRUE)
name=substring(list[i],1,nchar(list[i])-4)
rname=paste("../R/",name,".rda",sep="")
# This uses dat for the saved dataframe rather than name
save(dat,file=rname)
}
This works just fine, but the data frames are all named dat when loaded into
Rcmdr. It is not a problem to do an assignment at load time
from the command line as in catnip=load("catnip.rda"), but Rcmdr uses the data
frame name saved in the compressed .rda file upon loading.
My variable "name" contains the string for the dataframe name I would like to
use. I just can't figure out how to assign this name to the dat dataframe in
the context of my loop.
Any hints?
Thanks,
Rob Baer
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