Opening .spo SPSS file in R

Question

I am just wondering if I can read a .spo SPSS output file in R? I have tried the foreign package but it won't allow me to read .spo files. Does anyone know if there any other way of reading this in R?

Answer 1

Those .spo files are output files generated by SPSS. They might contain code, tables and graphics.

I'm not aware of any R package that might open them. However, the open source SPSS clone PSPP ( http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ ) does usually open them. There also used to exist an SPSS Legacy Viewer software that allowed one to view the contents of these output files.

With pure R you might be out of luck.

Answer 2

It seems that "PSPP cannot read SPSS output files (though it can read SPSS data and syntax files)."

http://osdir.com/ml/pspp-users-gnu/2009-12/msg00008.html