Version 7 of the SAS System includes three interface library engines, BMDP, OSIRIS and SPSS, that enable you to access external data directly from a SAS program. All these engines are read-only.

The SPSS engine supports native and portable file formats for both SPSS and SPSS-X files. The engine automatically determines which type of SPSS file it is reading and reads the file accordingly. This ...

Starting with Version 16, SPSS offers a free plug-in that lets users run R code within SPSS having full access to the active SPSS Statistics data, and writing its output to the SPSS Statistics Viewer.

But for all their benefits, popular open-source data programs also come with potentially time-consuming drawbacks. This paper will discuss how to handle these drawbacks, and get the right data tools ...