SPSS code to Stata syntax

[Florian Maissan]

Hi,

I have a question about how to import a .txt file filled with a SPSS code into Stata. Is there in any way an option that stata can read this file or recode it into something stata compatible?

Thank you very much!

utility=function(PF,RLSF,VIT,PAIN,MH,RL){
Most=as.numeric()
Most=ifelse(PF==3|RL==3|RL==4|SF==4|SF==5|PAIN==4|PAIN==5|MH==4|MH==5|VIT==4|VIT==5,1,0)

PF1=as.numeric()
RL_1=as.numeric()
SF1=as.numeric()
PAIN1=as.numeric()
MH1=as.numeric()
VIT1=as.numeric()
Most1=as.numeric()

for (i in 1:length(PF)){
if(PF[i]==1)PF1[i]=0
if(PF[i]==2)PF1[i]=0
if(PF[i]==3)PF1[i]=-0.045

if(RL[i]==1)RL_1[i]=0
if(RL[i]==2)RL_1[i]=-0.063
if(RL[i]==3)RL_1[i]=-0.063
if(RL[i]==4)RL_1[i]=-0.063

if(SF[i]==1)SF1[i]=0
if(SF[i]==2)SF1[i]=-0.063
if(SF[i]==3)SF1[i]=-0.066
if(SF[i]==4)SF1[i]=-0.081
if(SF[i]==5)SF1[i]=-0.093

if(PAIN[i]==1) PAIN1[i]=0
if(PAIN[i]==2) PAIN1[i]=0
if(PAIN[i]==3) PAIN1[i]=-0.042
if(PAIN[i]==4) PAIN1[i]=-0.077
if(PAIN[i]==5) PAIN1[i]=-0.137

if(MH[i]==1)MH1[i]=0
if(MH[i]==2)MH1[i]=-0.059
if(MH[i]==3)MH1[i]=-0.059
if(MH[i]==4)MH1[i]=-0.113
if(MH[i]==5)MH1[i]=-0.134

if(VIT[i]==1)VIT1[i]=0
if(VIT[i]==2)VIT1[i]=-0.078
if(VIT[i]==3)VIT1[i]=-0.078
if(VIT[i]==4)VIT1[i]=-0.078
if(VIT[i]==5)VIT1[i]=-0.106

if (Most[i]==0)Most1[i]=0
if (Most[i]==1)Most1[i]=-0.077
}
QoL=1+PF1+RL_1+SF1+PAIN1+MH1+VIT1+Most1
return(QoL)
}

[Richard Williams]

It would be a lot easier if you had SPSS create the file and then imported it into Stata. Is that an option? If not, there is a free SPSS clone you could try:

https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/

[Friedrich Huebler]

I have a question about how to import a .txt file filled with a SPSS code into Stata. Is there in any way an option that stata can read this file or recode it into something stata compatible

Richard gave good advice. To answer your question more directly: there is no software that translates SPSS syntax into Stata commands. For more information see this discussion on Statalist: http://www.statalist.org/forums/foru...-stata-do-file

[Mike Lacy]

This does not look like any SPSS code I have ever seen. For example, I have never seen "ifelse" or "[i]" in SPSS. In fact, I see almost no lines of code in the sample that are syntactically valid SPSS statements. I have not used SPSS for about 10 years, so perhaps there is a bunch of new stuff, but that being said, I wonder if there is some confusion here. I suppose some of this might come from SPSS's macro or matrix languages, but I don't know.

[Nick Cox]

I've not used SPSS in the current millennium, but SPSS as I understand it allows Python code.