'SPSS' merge syntax — spss.syntax • ILSAmerge

Produces and saves an 'SPSS' merge syntax given a list of files.

Usage

spss.syntax(filelist, name, outputdir = getwd(), zsav = TRUE, SPSSlimit = 50)

Arguments

filelist: a character vector with the list of files to be merged.
name: a string with the name of the merged file (without any extension).
outputdir: the directory where the .sps file and the merged file will be saved.
zsav: a logical value indicating if the the merged file should be compressed with zsav. Default is TRUE.
SPSSlimit: a numerical value indicating the limit of files per command of 'SPSS', typically 50.

Value

Saves an .sps file with the 'SPSS' syntax for merging the desired files.

Examples

# Path were raw 'SPSS' files are
input <- system.file("extdata/reds", package = "ILSAmerge")

# Path were merged files will be saved
dir.create(file.path(tempdir(),"spsssyntax"))
output <- file.path(tempdir(),"spsssyntax")

# List of BCGV1 files to be merged
files <- list.files(path = input, pattern = "BCG.+V1|bcg.+v1")

# Create 'SPSS' syntax
spss.syntax(filelist = files, name = "BCGV1", outputdir = output, zsav = TRUE)