I'm looking for a solution for producing SPSS format data files for loading into SPSS. The few offerings I can find are all commercial.
Has anyone experience with generating SPSS-format data files using open-source, freeware or home-grown solutions?
I'm not even sure that the file format is "open". Any hints appreciated (any language is fine, although java, perl or ruby preferred).
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What exactly do you want to produce? Data files (sav), Syntax files (sps) or Output files (spv). SPSS is a highly commercial product and I very much assume the file formats associated with SPSS are proprietary.
Python has an SPSS API. So maybe you should look into that one.
http://www.spss.com/devcentral/
tardate : thanks tharkun, investigating further so I know how to answer your question! I think data file but perhaps also a syntax file to match -
To close the loop on this question, I avoided the need to delve into proprietary data formats by writing a syntax file to read in a standard comma-separated text file that I exported from the system that was the source of my data.
Syntax files themselves use a proprietary "language" to describe the load procedure. Unfortunately, open source alternatives to SPSS (e.g. PSPP) do not support the syntax language to the full extent needed to replicate this solution.
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