Peter, There is a function called codebook as part of the memisc package that probably does what you want. See also the package vignette: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/memisc/vignettes/anes48.pdf
library(memisc) fn <- "NILT12w2.por" dat <- spss.portable.file(fn) codebook(dat) names(dat) description(dat) I hope this helps. Markus -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Peter Maclean Sent: 26 October 2013 21:37 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Code Book from SPSS Data I do not have SPSS and I would like to create a code book in a data frame format using R. I am reading the SPSS file using "memisc package". The script is: #Data for 2012 available at https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/datasets/&k=VTIXiGvdT7U4yPSpeHcrHQ%3D%3D%0A&r=dUkLGPeM%2BYkyyiRRq50yGs%2BmEf8kG%2FyCNQPwZn%2FaQD0%3D%0A&m=GVKjmjUiiJIiVcY%2FZ%2B35UGhRSRtdr9OJQhLQUx7Ax7Q%3D%0A&s=4dfa4233895c7e2f635380b0f8392a989a28848049001908965f058667a15143 #Also attached ibrary(memisc) ## change the working directory getwd() setwd('') data <- spss.portable.file("NILT12w2.por") Get names names(data) #Get Variable Lebels des <- as.data.frame(description(data)) #Descriptive Statistics & Code Book #Results are very long for printing codebook(data) #How could I extract a codebook (without Summary statistics for printing)? Peter Maclean Department of Economics UDSM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this E-Mail and in any attachments is...{{dropped:19}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
