This has come up before you might try
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/36694.html
The bottom line is that you either have to make sure that the SPSS datasets are
in a format where no warnings come up or find a way to verify that no corruption
is happening. As one of the posts mentions SPSS is not well documented, so
it's a hazard that can't be easily solved.
Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: G??ran Brostr??m [mailto:gb at stat.umu.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2004 4:11 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] read.spss: unrecognized record type
>
>
> When reading an spss file, I get the following message:
>
> Warning message:
> ../totmorH.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 13
> encountered in system file.
>
> What does it mean? Do I have to worry? The result looks as
> expected. I do
> not have (easy) access to SPSS, so I cannot check exactly
> that I got what I
> should have.
>
> Thanks,
>
> G??ran
>
> And, I'm using R-2.0.1 on Debian testing (from source).
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