How to use STATS_GETR extension command in SPSS [closed]

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I have recently installed the the STATS_GETR extension command in SPSS.

Once I go to 'File' then 'Get R Workspace' what exactly do I need to do in order to open an .Rdata file?

I do not have a Workspace created, and I do not know how to figure out the Data frame of the dataset.

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The extension command actually has a helper subcommand INFO to help with that problem. So here is an example running it on an RData file I created that is simply the saved workspace of MyDF <- data.frame(cbind(rnorm(100),rnorm(100))).

STATS GET R FILE="C:\Users\andrew.wheeler\Desktop\test\Examp.RData"
  /INFO.

Note the workspace is the RData file. So if you have an RData file you have created the "workspace". The command above will print all of the available objects in that particular file.

Once you figure out which object contains the data you want, then you can run the command below to grab that data frame. In this example I grab the MyDF dataframe.

STATS GET R FILE = "C:\Users\andrew.wheeler\Desktop\test\Examp.RData"
  /GET DATAFRAME=MyDF DATASET=SPSSMyDF.

As always, see STATS GET R /HELP to see all of the options.