zac at zjbnewton.demon.co.uk
2009-Feb-07 16:05 UTC
[Rd] reading SPSS .sav files (PR#13509)
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 the read.spss function in package foreign. R version 2.8.1 will read *.sav files produced by SPSS version 13. The problem applies to all the existing SPSS files I had before I downloaded R 2.8.1 and to several new SPSS 11 *.sav files I have produced since.
Please can we have the reproducible example we asked for (in the FAQ, the posting guide ...). We also need to know the version of foreign that worked, so can we have the output of sessionInfo() for both sessions (see the posting guide for what we need). read.spss is able to read the old SPSS .sav files we have as examples, so there has to be something different about yours -- and we have no idea what without seeing an example. Hopefully with one we will be able to track this down. On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, zac at zjbnewton.demon.co.uk wrote:> 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 the read.spss function in package > foreign. > > R version 2.8.1 will read *.sav files produced by SPSS version 13. > > The problem applies to all the existing SPSS files I had before I > downloaded R 2.8.1 and to several new SPSS 11 *.sav files I have > produced since. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
I have experience the same problem reading SPSS sav files using R 2.8.0 and
2.8.1 on Windows XP and Tinn-R version 2.1.1.6. I'm using SPSS 17.0 so it is
probably not related to SPSS version 11. I might add that I have been having
problems interfacing Tinn-R 2.1.1.6 with R although it may be unrelated to
the crash that results from attempting to read SPSS "sav" files.
Here is the code that results in the crash.
## ---
library(foreign)
scoresdat<-
read.spss("H:/groups/evaluations/data/10101_012709_Scores.sav",
to.data.frame=TRUE)
## ---
I presumed the problem was with my installation of R, but repeated
reinstalls have not corrected the problem.
zac-14 wrote:>
> 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 the
> read.spss
> function in package foreign.
>
> R version 2.8.1 will read *.sav files produced by SPSS version 13.
>
> The problem applies to all the existing SPSS files I had before I
> downloaded R
> 2.8.1
> and to several new SPSS 11 *.sav files I have produced since.
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>
>
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