SPSS and R for propensity score matching

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I am very new to coding (apologies)
I downloaded "R_Essential_statistic28.0.1" for my version of SPSS (version 28), and downloaded R (version 4.2.1) to pull in the "propensity matching score" into SPSS. When I tried to run my data (which is formatted correctly), I got this error in SPSS: (...): package or namespace load failed for 'optmatch' in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCHeck= v[[j]]): there is no package called 'survey'

Please help (explanation in plain language preferred)! EB

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Hi, Not sure how you're working between SPSS and R, but you need to install the package first.

install.packages("survey")
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Thank you very much. Is the "install.packages("survey")" command I need to put into R? I am not familiar with LUI...

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yes, thats an R command.
What is LUI ?

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thank you for your help!
my understanding is that a LUI is a linear user interface (I am used to the lay-person way of using computers- GUI- graphical user interface, so still working out how to download by typing in commands)... very helpful. Will try this in R today. I am a clinician in a burn ward, so on behalf of our patients, thank you for help on this project...

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now I am getting an error in "install.package("survey"):
'lib = "C:/Program Files/ R/R-4.2.1/library"' is not writable
Error in install.packages(lib = .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type = t$ unable to install packages

Any suggestions?

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You probably meant CLI - command line interface, run Rstudio with admin privileges and check if

install.packages("survey")

works.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32540919/library-is-not-writable

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Thank you for your help!

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