R help - Mar 2004 - still spss

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

It appears you may have left off the file extension,
"experiencial.sav"

-----Original Message-----
From: Margarida J?lia Rodrigues Igreja [mailto:migreja at med.up.pt]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 1997 2:24 AM
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] still spss


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

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Dear Margarida,

Are you sure that the file is named experiencia1. Might it be named
experiencia1.sav or experiencia1.por?

I hope that this helps,
 John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
> Margarida J?lia Rodrigues Igreja
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 1997 2:24 AM
> To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] still spss
> 
> 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
>

Margarida J?lia Rodrigues Igreja wrote:
> library(foreign)
> read.spss("H:\\Desktop\\bd1\\experiencia1")
> Error in read.spss("H:\\Desktop\\bd1\\experiencia1") : unable to
open file
I suspect, you make still a path error. Does your file really have no 
extension (e.g. .sav)? The default behaviour of Windows is to hide 
extensions.

Maybe, read.spss("H:\\Desktop\\bd1\\experiencia1.sav") will help, 
otherwise you may look for a computer expert near you.

Thomas P.

Margarida J?lia Rodrigues Igreja wrote:
> 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
For sure the file there? Does the file has an extension, .sav for 
example? You will need to specify the latter as in: 
read.spss("H:\\Desktop\\bd1\\experiencia1.sav")


Uwe Ligges


> can you help me?
> 
> margarida,portugal
> 
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Another thing to try if you just can't get the other
suggestions to work is:

read.spss(file.choose())

This will bring up up a Windows dialogue that allows you
to navigate to and select the file.

---
Date:   Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:12:26 +0100 
From:   Thomas Petzoldt <thpe at hhbio.wasser.tu-dresden.de>
To:   =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Margarida_J=FAlia_Rodrigues_Igreja?= <migreja at
med.up.pt>
Cc:   <R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> 
Subject:   Re: [R] still spss 

 
Margarida Júlia Rodrigues Igreja wrote:
> library(foreign)
> read.spss("H:\\Desktop\\bd1\\experiencia1")
> Error in read.spss("H:\\Desktop\\bd1\\experiencia1") : unable to
open file
I suspect, you make still a path error. Does your file really have no 
extension (e.g. .sav)? The default behaviour of Windows is to hide 
extensions.

Maybe, read.spss("H:\\Desktop\\bd1\\experiencia1.sav") will help, 
otherwise you may look for a computer expert near you.

Thomas P.

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Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> Margarida J?lia Rodrigues Igreja wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> For sure the file there? Does the file has an extension, .sav for
> example? You will need to specify the latter as in:
> read.spss("H:\\Desktop\\bd1\\experiencia1.sav")
In Windows I recommend the use of file.choose() in place of explicit
file names.  The function brings up a chooser panel in which you can
use the familiar Windows point-and-click style of selecting a file.

That is, invoke read.spss as

read.spss(file.choose())