R: Read SPSS (SAV & POR) files. Write SAV files.

read_spss {haven} | R Documentation

## Read SPSS (SAV & POR) files. Write SAV files.

### Description

Currently haven can read and write logical, integer, numeric, character and factors. See `labelled_spss` for how labelled variables in SPSS are handled in R. `read_spss` is an alias for `read_sav`.

### Usage

    read_sav(file, user_na = FALSE)

    read_por(file, user_na = FALSE)

    write_sav(data, path)

    read_spss(file, user_na = FALSE)

### Arguments

`file` | Either a path to a file, a connection, or literal data (either a single string or a raw vector). Files ending in `.gz`, `.bz2`, `.xz`, or `.zip` will be automatically uncompressed. Files starting with `http://`, `https://`, `ftp://`, or `ftps://` will be automatically downloaded. Remote gz files can also be automatically downloaded and decompressed. Literal data is most useful for examples and tests. It must contain at least one new line to be recognised as data (instead of a path).
`user_na` | If `TRUE` variables with user defined missing will be read into `labelled_spss` objects. If `FALSE`, the default, user-defined missings will be converted to `NA`.
`data` | Data frame to write.
`path` | Path to a file where the data will be written.

### Value

A tibble, data frame variant with nice defaults.

Variable labels are stored in the "label" attribute of each variable. It is not printed on the console, but the RStudio viewer will show it.

### Examples

    path <- system.file("examples", "iris.sav", package = "haven")
    read_sav(path)

    tmp <- tempfile(fileext = ".sav")
    write_sav(mtcars, tmp)
    read_sav(tmp)

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