Spss R. In this section we are going to go into more detail on how to load a sav file into an r dataframe. The major difference between r vs spss is that r is a programming language whereas spss is a software created by ibm.
In this section we are going to go into more detail on how to load a sav file into an r dataframe. R is a multipurpose open source programming language. A cleaner way is to save to spss statistics portable por format from spss and open the result by using the read spss method from the foreign library.
Now comes to the question of what is spss spss was developed at north carolina state university.
Mediation plot in r. How to open into r a file stored using the spss sav format. However it s not exactly user friendly for data storage so still for several time your data will be archived using excel spss or similar programs. The package i came up with is called spsstor which converts spss syntax into r syntax.