how to open a dataset using the R extension on SPSS??

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Hi, grad student here, not much skilled with R. I was taught how to use SPSS, but my supervisor uses R so he sent me the syntax for our research analysis in R-code and I tried to run it on SPSS (version 27) using the R extension (version 3.6) (Windows user here), but it's not working and I don't know why.

I tried opening the file using R language but nothing shows up on the dataset page, and no error appears on the output page either, just the command followed by a "- /", and I have no idea what it means. So I tried opening the dataset using normal SPSS coding, and it works, but then I used another R command (copied and pasted from the file my professor sent me, so it should work) to convert a string variable in a numeric one, but again the output page just shows the command with no error mentioned while nothing happens on the dataset. Any idea why???

Again, I am absolutely clueless as to what I should expect, I have never used the R extension on SPSS, and I only tried this time because R is totally foreign to me and have no idea how to use it.
Can anyone help? Thanks!

[jrkrideau]

You are likely better off asking this question on an SPSS forum. I suspect we do not have a lot of people here that know much about SPSS and especially about R extensions for SPSS.

I know I have not used SPSS in many years. I keep being surprised it still exists.

If the data is not confidential or you can give use some simulated data either in Excel or in . csv form, (stick the Excel file on something like Dropbox) and provide your R code here we may be able to walk you through using R.

See, for general suggestions:
FAQ Asking Questions

For .csv format out put the data to a .csv file Copy the output and paste it here between
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Sorry to not be of more help.