spsspkg.Submit Function (R)

spsspkg.Submit(command text). Submits the command text to IBM® SPSS® Statistics for processing. The argument can be a quoted string or a character vector.

  • The argument must resolve to one or more complete IBM SPSS Statistics commands. You can use \n to delimit commands within a single quoted string.
  • If IBM SPSS Statistics is not currently running (when driving IBM SPSS Statistics from R), spsspkg.Submit will start the IBM SPSS Statistics backend processor.
  • Submitted syntax for MATRIX-END MATRIX and BEGIN DATA-END DATA blocks cannot be split across BEGIN PROGRAM R-END PROGRAM blocks.
  • The following commands are not supported by Submit when driving IBM SPSS Statistics from R: OUTPUT EXPORT, OUTPUT OPEN and OUTPUT SAVE.

Example

BEGIN PROGRAM R.
#Run a single command 
spsspkg.Submit("DISPLAY NAMES.")  
#Run two commands, specifying commands as a character vector 
spsspkg.Submit(c("DISPLAY NAMES.", "SHOW $VARS."))
#Run two commands, specifying commands in a single string with \n to delimit the commands 
spsspkg.Submit("DISPLAY NAMES.\nSHOW $VARS.")   
END PROGRAM.