Not certain about .por but this works with ordinary SPSS files: require(Hmisc) dat <- spss.get(...) # gets variable labels, etc. contents(dat) html(contents(dat), ...) The last command produces a hyperlinked data dictionary, e.g., for each variable the number of levels is given and you click on that number to see the levels. Variables having the same levels are combined in the latter part. Frank -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chairman School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University