similar to: SPSS to R Data file conversion

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

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

Is there any documentation on what kind of SPSS file can and cannot be read by read.spss? Alternatively, how can one modify or "clean" an SPSS file to make it readable by read.spss? What properties must a *.sav file before read.spss can read it? The file in this example is 270KB, with 5 rows and 173 columns. I have no trouble reading larger files with read.spss, so it's not

I maintain the Devore5 package which contains the data sets from the 5th edition of Jay Devore's text "Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences". The 6th edition has now been published and it includes several new data sets in exercises and examples. In addition, some exercises and examples from the 5th edition are renumbered in the 6th edition. I face the

Dear R users, I am trying to get R to read an .sav data file generated in SPSS 17 for Mac. Here is the command and the error message: > data = read.spss('/Users/userdir/Desktop/filename.sav') Error in iconv(names(rval), cp, "") : unsupported conversion In addition: Warning message: In read.spss("/Users/userdir/Desktop/filename.sav") :

SPSS seems to have changed its default datafile format, resulting in issues for read.spss(). In Windows this results in a warning, in Debian the import completely fails: Debian (R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) i486-pc-linux-gnu, foreign_0.8-29) > read.spss("/home/jeroen/samples/Tomato.sav") Error in iconv(names(rval), cp, "") : unsupported conversion from 'CP65001'

A couple of months ago, probably using an older version of R, R used to run the following code just fine: library("foreign") data.exp1 <- as.data.frame(read.spss("dataDef.sav")) Issuing the same commands now (after starting R using --vanilla), gives me the following behavior: > library("foreign") > x <- read.spss("dataDef.sav") Error

Full_Name: Roger Newton Version: 2.8.1 OS: windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (80.176.228.157) I have an elderly version of SPSS (version 11) which I still use. R Version 2.6.1 would, and still will, read SPSS *.sav files produced by SPSS version 11. R version 2.8.1 which I installed two days ago (05/02/09) reports an error and shuts down when trying to read SPSS version 11 *.sav files using

Hello, does anyone have experience with reading SPSS Version 15.0 files into R (version 2.4.1, WinXP)? I have long been sucessfully reading SPSS files with read.spss from the wonderful foreign package, but somehow after upgrading from SPSS14 to SPSS15 I seem to have problems. Trying a simple example, where test.sav is a SPSS 15.0 data file consisting of x1=c(1,2,3) and

Dear R-users, I have som troubles with .sav file. How is it possible for us R-users to read SPSS files. I know that is possible, I tried the following: > library(foreign) > Corp<-read.spss("/Users/kama/Analysis/Corporation.sav", header=TRUE, > sep=",") Error in read.spss("/Users/kama/Analysis/Corporation.sav", header = TRUE, : unused

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

Hi, I repeatedly get an error when trying to read an SPSS v. 18 .sav file into R. > require(foreign) Loading required package: foreign > femaleSPSS.dat <- read.spss("female-04-02-2010.sav") Warning message: In read.spss("female-04-02-2010.sav") : female-04-02-2010.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18 encountered in system file > However, read.spss works

Dear R-users, I'm facing a problem with the import of data in R. I have a sav file that, I presume, uses some Arabic encoding (but I don't know which one) and I would like to read it with R. When I use the function read.spss (I also tried spss.get(Hmisc)), I get the following message: > read.spss("Hhld.sav") Erreur dans read.spss("Hhld.sav") : erreur ? la lecture

hi again, i still cannot open the file in spss :( i type: library(foreign) read.spss("H:\\Desktop\\bd1\\experiencia1") and the error comes: Error in read.spss("H:\\Desktop\\bd1\\experiencia1") : unable to open file can you help me? margarida,portugal

Sir/Madam, Installed in my computer is the Version 2.9.1(2009-06-26) of R. I have a SPSS.sav file produced by SPSS Version 17. >install.('foreign') >library(foreign) <- read.spss("f:/sme.sav",use.value.labels=FALSE) Warning message: In read.spss("f:/sme.sav", use.value.labels = FALSE) : f:/sme.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18

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

I am trying to import a SPSS.sav file into R. The attached file is not technically the file I am trying to import, but does replicate my problem. The actual file is much too large to attach. No matter what I do, I can not get R (base or Hmisc) to apply the value labels in the .sav file to the dataframe created in R. Here's the code that I am using. maine <- spss.get("test.sav") #

Greetings, How to I read in SPSS .sav files into R. Thank you. David ===================================== David Kaplan, PhD Professor of Education School of Education University of Delaware Newark DE 19716 Voice: 302-831-8696 Fax: 302-831-4110 email: mailto:dkaplan at udel.edu Homepage:

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:

Hello Everyone,   Trying to help someone recover the contents of an SPSS.sav file using read.spss. This seemed to work well but produced a warning message. My code and the warning are displayed below.   Spent some time looking for previous questions about this warning. Found a lot of questions posted but wasn't able to figure out what the problem is.   Is there anyone out there who can explain