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I'm using R 2.8.1 on Ubuntu 8.10. I'm writing partly to ask what's wrong, partly to tell other users who search that there is a work around. The General Social Survey is a long standing series of surveys provided by NORC (National Opinion Research Center). I have downloaded some years of the survey data in SPSS format (here's the site:

I was wondering why it is possible to read long labels from the CVS files but not from the SPSS files. I did not have much time to search for the code but I found: in foreign_0.8-10 source file var.h.in > /* Definition of the max length of a short string value, generally > eight characters. */ > #define MAX_SHORT_STRING ((SIZEOF_DOUBLE)>=8 ? ((SIZEOF_DOUBLE)+1)/2*2 > : 8)

Hi, I have a valid SPSS .sav file (which I can open happily in SPSS v11 on Windows XP). Opening it in R2.41 on Linux we get this message :- > HSE3023 <- read.spss("HSE.sav") Error in read.spss("HSE.sav") : error reading system-file header In addition: Warning message: HSE.sav: Variable X234 indicates variable label of invalid length 256 Now variable X234 has indeed a

I got the following: > library(foreign) > swal = read.spss("swallowing.sav", to.data.frame =TRUE) Warning message: In read.spss("swallowing.sav", to.data.frame = TRUE) : swallowing.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 21 encountered in system file > The bulk of the data seems to read in a usable form, but I'm curious about what might be getting lost

Hello guys I am new to this list and for R too. I am wondering if there is a patch for the SPSS reading code on the foreign package, in order to be able to read long variable names. Right now read.spss() just trunc the names to 8 characters. Or if someone could help me on other way: I have to process everyday a lot of SPSS Syntax Files and Dat files that come from one system that can only export

Trying to open some SPSS .sav files (saved with SPSS 15) gives the following: read.spss('/data/big/unzipped_ukda/seh3767/3767SPSS_570D6A086C9A1B0636F13255F25A58C1/prgrp95.sav') Error in read.spss("/data/big/unzipped_ukda/seh3767/3767SPSS_570D6A086C9A1B0636F13255F25A58C1/prgrp95.sav"): error reading system-file header In addition: Warning message:

Hola, Tengo problemas a la hora de cargar un archivo que originalmente está en SPSS. Trabajo con Fedora y uso R mediante el plugin Rgedit en gedit. Además en Fedora no tengo SPSS, sino PSPP Para cargar el archivo he probado estas dos cosas (escribo también el mensaje de error que me genera R): >library_(foreign) >read.spss("guille.sav",to.data.frame = T) Error en

Saikat DebRoy is working on a revised "foreign" package (currently in the src/contrib/Devel area on CRAN) that will include the ability to read the SPSS save format. Since we don't use SPSS we don't have easy access to a sample data set and have been using PSPP (see http://pspp.stat.wisc.edu/) to generate test data. It would be more realistic to have a small, redistributable

Hello again I have a file from SPSS in .sav format. when I run library(foreign) cvar<-as.data.frame(read.spss("c:\\NDRI\\cvar\\data\\cvar2rev3.sav")) I get a warning Warning message: c:\NDRI\cvar\data\cvar2rev3.sav: Compression bias (0) is not the usual value of 100. The data appear to be OK, but I am concerned. (I tried searching the archives and the documenation for data

Hello, I've a .por file from 1998. I've tried to read it with library(foreign) read.spss("mhp_hu.por") at this point R simply stops working and my whole system is close to unusable I've found one related thread, but even there no real solution was given https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-February/125071.html Unfortunately, I have no SPSS, and I can't convert

Hi, A frequently seen issue with importing SPSS data files, is that R does not import the 'long variable names'. I built a patch on the R-project's foreign module, in order to import the 'long variable names' from SPSS (record 7, subtype 13). To complete the job, I had to expand the "struct variable" definition to have 64 +1 charachters. I'm not aware of side

Estimados, tengo que hacer un calculo muy simple, pero con una BD mas o menos grande (250mil filas x 500 columnas) ... esta BD esta en formato de SPSS y la importo asi: library(foreign) bdr <- read.spss("CASEN_2013_MN_B_Principal.sav", use.value.labels=FALSE, to.data.frame=TRUE) luego, quiero transformar el DF en un data.tale pues el calculo requiere obtener promedios de

Hi, Does anybody know how to obtain the same information as the SPSS command "DISPLAY DICTIONARY". I know the read.spss function in the package foreign, but it doesn't give either the missing values defined by the user under SPSS or the format variables (for example if they are dates or not). Thanks in advance. Isaac Subirana (isubirana@imim.es) [[alternative HTML

Hi R-users, When I import a data base from SPSS with some variable with a name of more than 8 characters (which is possible in version 12 or later of SPSS software) I find that the name of these variables have been truncated to 8 characters. I used the 'read.spss' function from the 'foreign' package. Is there a function in R that solves this 'length variable names'

Hi, is there any way to exchange (A LOT OF) data between SPPS and R/Splus, i.e., I want to get data from SPSS into R. It is a huge data frame with many columns being factors, so manual conversion is out of question (and there are more data to come). Exporting ASCII from SPSS seems to loose all level names, and the portable SPSS format doesn't look too nice. I've searched S-news and

Hi All, I am writing a simulation that examines the effects of species extinctions on ecological communties by sequentially removing individuals of a given species (sometimes using weighted probabilities) and replacing the lost individuals with species identities randomly sampled from the remaining individuals. Thus I use two dataframes. One contains all the individuals and their species

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Hi, I just compiled and installed the new Wine (1.3.10). I have succesfully installed Anno 1503 Gold edition. But after I start the game: a black screen appears, changes colors to blue, then back to black again, if I click on the screen a green screen appears. [Image: http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6613/screenshotanno1503.png ] I guess this is a graphics card problem. I have an old

When I try to import an spss sav file with read.spss() I am getting the following error 'Error in read.spss("X:\\xxxx.sav") : error reading system-file header' and the import process is aborted. I have tried in v. 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 The sav-file loads without problems in spss v14 I have tried saving in older spss v7 but are getting the same result. The read.spss() has other

Hi, I have one doubt about one of the parameter of 'read.spss()' from 'foreign' package. Here is the syntax :- read.spss ( file, use.value.labels = TRUE, to.data.frame = FALSE, max.value.labels = Inf, trim.factor.names = FALSE, trim_values = TRUE, reencode = NA, use.missings = to.data.frame ) In above syntax when I pass *'to.data.frame=