R help - Jul 2010 - meaning of warning messages after spss-import

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I have imported a spss-data set with the read.spss command and received the
following warning
messages. Does this mean that something did not work correctly? What am I to
make out of these messages?
Thanks for your help, Katharina

Warning messages:
1: In read.spss("/Daten/ESS4DE.spss/ESS4DE.sav",  :
  /Daten/ESS4DE.spss/ESS4DE.sav: File-indicated character representation code
(1252) looks like a
Windows codepage
2: In read.spss("/Daten/ESS4DE.spss/ESS4DE.sav",  :
  /Daten/ESS4DE.spss/ESS4DE.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 20
encountered in system file

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I have imported a spss-data set with the read.spss command and received the
following warning
messages. Does this mean that something did not work correctly? What am I to
make out of these messages?
Thanks for your help, Katharina

Warning messages:
1: In read.spss("/Daten/ESS4DE.spss/ESS4DE.sav",  :
  /Daten/ESS4DE.spss/ESS4DE.sav: File-indicated character representation code
(1252) looks like a
Windows codepage
2: In read.spss("/Daten/ESS4DE.spss/ESS4DE.sav",  :
  /Daten/ESS4DE.spss/ESS4DE.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 20
encountered in system file


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I have not seen that particular subtype documented in the archives,  
but others (subtpes 16 and 17 if I remember correctly)  were due to  
difficulties in extracting value labels from the incompletely  
documented spss file structure. Have you examined the resulting data  
object with str()?



-- 
David.

On Jul 7, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Katharina Manderscheid wrote:
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> I have imported a spss-data set with the read.spss command and  
> received the following warning
> messages. Does this mean that something did not work correctly? What  
> am I to make out of these messages?
> Thanks for your help, Katharina
>
> Warning messages:
> 1: In read.spss("/Daten/ESS4DE.spss/ESS4DE.sav",  :
>  /Daten/ESS4DE.spss/ESS4DE.sav: File-indicated character  
> representation code (1252) looks like a
> Windows codepage
> 2: In read.spss("/Daten/ESS4DE.spss/ESS4DE.sav",  :
>  /Daten/ESS4DE.spss/ESS4DE.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype  
> 20 encountered in system file
>
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