Re: [R] importing NPDB

2011-12-28 Thread Clint Bowman
Alison, library(foreign) ndpb<-read.spss("NPDB1107.por") generates: Warning message: In `levels<-`(`*tmp*`, value = c("Self Query Processing", "Non-Fed. Malp. Payor", : duplicated levels will not be allowed in factors anymore and summary(ndpb) does generate quite a list. Perhaps you can

Re: [R] importing NPDB

2011-12-27 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Dec 27, 2011, at 4:55 PM, alison korte wrote: > Does anyone have information about using the National Practitioner Data Bank > (NPDB) in R? It's public use data available from the U.S. Department of > Health and Human Services that can be downloaded as a .dat or .por file. I > can't even fi

[R] importing NPDB

2011-12-27 Thread alison korte
Does anyone have information about using the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) in R? It's public use data available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that can be downloaded as a .dat or .por file. I can't even figure out how to open the file in R. [[alternative H