Launch SPSS. Open the "File" menu, select "Open" and click on "Data." Use the file browser to select the ASCII file on your hard drive and click on "Open." ...

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 ...

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.