When I ask R 2.7.1 to read the file below it gives this error message. When I ask R 2.5.0 to read this same file it runs fine. I think there is a bug in 2.7.1. Would you please check this for me. Thanks. Ellen Mitchell symptoms <-readSPSSdata ("D:Documents and Settings/ag diary; total live births; stages 0-5 for R.sav") Error: unexpected input in "symptoms <-readSPSSdata ("" [[alternative HTML version deleted]]