I want to import an .spv file into R but I cannot find a way to do it. I tried using the "haven" package but it seems it only supports .sav. Does anyone know how to do this? The end goal is to transform the .spv file into a .csv/.xlsx file so if you know of other ways that would also be super helpful.
Thank you in advance!
It seems .spv contains the analysis results from SPSS, including text, figure, and table(literal); it is binary. While the .sav file is the dataset, you can think of it as a data frame. That's why haven could have read_sav() and write_sav.
There are some fundamental differences between them. The behavior of importing the .spv file is very unclear. Like, what info are you trying to extract? Is it text, figure, or table?
I would convert .spv file to Word first, and confirm what info I like to extract first. If it is text, save it as .txt file. If it is a table, save it as .csv file manually. I assume there is no need for the figure as you want to convert it to .csv.
Here is a link how to convert .spv to .docx. Hope it helps.