How to use foreign Package In R Language

Foreign package has read.spss() methods to read the sav file in R Programming Language.

To install the package:

install.packages('foreign')

Syntax:

 read.spps(ā€œFileā€, to.data.frame = TRUE/FALSE)

Example: Reading SPSS file 

R




library("foreign")
  
data1 <- read.spss("airline_passengers.sav"
                   to.data.frame = TRUE)
head(data1)


Output:

number
112
118
132
129
121
135

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