Hi Karl: a possible solution: require(foreign) mydata <- read.spss("somedata.sav", use.value.labels = TRUE, to.data.frame = TRUE) ----- for more information, try library(foreign) ?read.spss HTH, Arin Message: 21 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:36:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Karl Knoblick <karlknoblich@yahoo.de> Subject: [R] Read SPSS data (*.sav) in R 1.8.0 (ok) and R1.9.1(error) To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Message-ID: <20040726083633.90831.qmail@web52508.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hallo! <snipped....> Does anybody know a possibilty to read a SPSS file under R1.9.1? Thanks! Karl Arindam Basu MD MPH DBI Assistant Director Fogarty International Program on Environmental Health in India IPGMER 244 AJC Bose Road, Kolkata 700027 India [[alternative HTML version deleted]]