script for opening SPSS data (from Afrobarometer) in R

spss_data_load.R

library(foreign)
library(memisc)
library(Hmisc)

setwd("C:\\your\\working\\folder")

#Open with standard foreign package
data_frame_attempt1 <- read.spss("yourdata.sav")

#Open with memisc package HT http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3136293/read-spss-file-into-r
data_frame_attempt2 <- data.frame(as.data.set(spss.system.file("yourdata.sav")))

#Open with Hmisc package
data_frame_attempt3 = spss.get("yourdata.sav")