Re: [comp.soft-sys.stat.spss] How to read data file directly from a URL

R can do this. It makes lab demonstrations
very easy for students.

-Jason

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:06:13PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> An interesting idea from the SPSS newsgroup.
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> Greetings old friends--- haven't posted in a while because I'm using
> SPSS less and because I've had to start using the Google groups
> interface, which annoys me.
> 
> On topic:
> Is there any convenient way to use SPSS read a data file directly from
> a URL?  I'm thinking of something like:
> 
> get file = "http://www.myspssdatafiles/GSS2004.sav"; .
> 
> I suppose something like this could be implemented via OBDC, but that
> doesn't seem very easy.  At least Stata (R?) has the equivalent syntax,
> and I was hoping the same thing could be done some way in SPSS.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike Lacy
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