if i were you, i will use sqlite, as mentioned in your email already. spss should be able to read sqlite data easily through odbc.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Fredrik Karlsson <dargo...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear list, > > I am leaving my old position and now need to convert my R data frames > into a format that can be used by an SPSS user replacing me, without > running into conversion problems. > The data set consists of strings in UTF8 encoding and values in double > precision floats. The data set is not terribly large, but I had bit > problems getting it into R due to the large number of unfortunate > characters in the strings (', #, " and so on) so I was just wondering > if there is any way to get the data into a SPSS friendly format (other > than tab-separated files) so that a minimum of conversion is done in > between the two systems. > A data base file (SQLite) would be ideal, but unfortunatelly, I don't > think the recieving end would be able to handle it, i.e. get the data > into SPSS. > > Sorry for asking this on the list, but I have found lots of > information about getting data safelly _into_ R in the archive, but > far les about exporting data out of R. > > Please give me your best tip. > > /Fredrik > > -- > "Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't > get anything out of it." > > ______________________________________________ > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- ============================== WenSui Liu Blog : statcompute.spaces.live.com Tough Times Never Last. But Tough People Do. - Robert Schuller ============================== [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.