Version 7 of the SAS System includes three interface library engines, BMDP, OSIRIS and SPSS, that enable you to access external data directly from a SAS program. All these engines are read-only.

The SPSS engine supports native and portable file formats for both SPSS and SPSS-X files. The engine automatically determines which type of SPSS file it is reading and reads the file accordingly. This ...

Launch SPSS. Open the "File" menu, select "Open" and click on "Data." Use the file browser to select the ASCII file on your hard drive and click on "Open." Click on "Next" once the Import Text ...

Starting with Version 16, SPSS offers a free plug-in that lets users run R code within SPSS having full access to the active SPSS Statistics data, and writing its output to the SPSS Statistics Viewer.

But for all their benefits, popular open-source data programs also come with potentially time-consuming drawbacks. This paper will discuss how to handle these drawbacks, and get the right data tools ...