Hi, We just upgraded the MacOSX R with foreign package 0.8.27 with CRAN to have SPSS long variable names. Script tests/spss.R runs fine. Thanks for importing the spss long labels patch & having this available for MacOSX! The first real-life datafile does not get loaded with "Unexpected end of file". The SPSS file was saved on a P4 linux, R running on MacOSX (ppc). SPSS on MacOSX could read the file. Saving in SPSS there brings the same problem when reading on P4 linux. Testing proved that the problem existed with earlier versions of the foreign package too. I found the problem in src/sfm-read.c, read_document(). The n_lines variable does not get byte-swapped. This patch solves the problem. Kind regards, Kurt Van Dijck & Ilse Laurijssen Index: src/sfm-read.c ==================================================================--- src/sfm-read.c (revision 5177) +++ src/sfm-read.c (working copy) @@ -1336,6 +1336,8 @@ h->fn)); assertive_bufread(h, &n_lines, sizeof n_lines, 0); + if (ext->reverse_endian) + bswap_int32 (&n_lines); dict->n_documents = n_lines; if (dict->n_documents <= 0) lose ((_("%s: Number of document lines (%d) must be greater than 0"),