[R] producing output as *.spo (spss output format)

2007-11-10 Thread Ivan Uemlianin
Dear All I am considering moving from SPSS to R as my stats environment of choice. I have read around and everything looks favourable. There is just one issue on which I have been unable to find information. Many clients ask me to send them output (tables, graphs, etc) as an spss output file

Re: [R] producing output as *.spo (spss output format)

2007-11-10 Thread Ivan Uemlianin
Dear All Thanks for these pointers. odfweave looks the closest to what I need, although the use case is not quite what I had in mind. Odfweave seems to want you to write all your R code in an odf file and then process this file in R. What I have in mind is running all the code from a command

Re: [R] producing output as *.spo (spss output format)

2007-11-10 Thread Ivan Uemlianin
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > There is a commercial product Stat/Transfer that I haven't used > that includes SPSS and R files on its list of files that it can > convert. Thanks, but it seems that Stat/Transfer does not support spss output files (ie .spo), only the data files: http://www.stattrans

Re: [R] producing output as *.spo (spss output format)

2007-11-12 Thread Ivan Uemlianin
Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote: > You probably don't want to spend time figuring out the .spo format. From > SPSS 16 on, that format is obsolete and replaced by the Unicode > XML-based .spv file. SPSS 16 users need a separate Legacy Viewer to read > .spo files. -Bob Great. I've had a quick Google