Having trouble using R with SPSS

[Poes, Matthew Joseph]

Hi guys,

                I am running SPSS 19.  I had my IT guy install R version 2.10.1 and what he says is the right version of R essentials (which he says installed correctly).  When I type in the following command:

BEGIN PROGRAM R.

browser()

END PROGRAM.

A window pops up, but when I type “Q”, I get an error.  In fact, when I type any command, I get an error:

“Error: could not find function “SetOutputFromBrowser””

 

When I type this command:

 

BEGIN PROGRAM R. x <- "R plug-in is working properly" x END PROGRAM.

 

I’m told I should get:

 

BEGIN PROGRAM R. x <- "R plug-in is working properly" x END PROGRAM. [1] " R plug-in is working properly"

 

But the last part is missing.  What has gone wrong with the install?  My IT guy doesn’t want to reinstall anything until I have feedback from you folks, so he knows what to look for.

 

Matthew J Poes

Research Data Specialist

Center for Prevention Research and Development

University of Illinois

510 Devonshire Dr.

Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: [phone]

email: [hidden email]

 

 

[Tom1234]

Hello Matthew,
I think you're missing a single piece of important code when using R from SPSS, I'm pretty sure that commands that would display things in R will not naturally display in SPSS you need to therefore tell the program to display the content.
You should have put:

BEGIN PROGRAM R. 
print("R plug-in is working properly")
END PROGRAM.

See where I got my information HERE

[Jon K Peck]

If things are working, R text and graphics output automatically appears in the Statistics Viewer.  You can test whether the code is actually running another way.  Run this program, which should pop up an R browser window inside Statistics
begin program r.
browser()
end program.

Use Q to close that window.  If the window does not appear, the code is not running at all.

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
[hidden email]
new phone: [phone]




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Hello Matthew,
I think you're missing a single piece of important code when using R from
SPSS, I'm pretty sure that commands that would display things in R will not
naturally display in SPSS you need to therefore tell the program to display
the content.
You should have put:



See where I got my information
http://people.cst.cmich.edu/lee1c/spss/Integrate_R.htm#Writing_an_R_program_to_be_integrated_with_SPSS
HERE

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