I pasted some of the error/warning message into Google and among other things:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21228518/what-is-attr-value-labels-when-reading-spss-into-r
This might begin to explain what is happening. Is a data.frame created?
Rick B.
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Subject: [R] problem loading spss-files
after updating R from 3.3.3. to 3.4.0 i cannot import spss-data files
anymore. for the european social survey (europeansocialsurvey.org) i get
this warning:
re-encoding from CP1252
Fehler in levels<-(*tmp*, value = if (nl == nL) as.character(labels)
else paste0(labels, :
factor level [3] is duplicated
Zus?tzlich: Warnmeldung:
In read.spss(file, use.value.labels = use.value.labels, to.data.frame
to.data.frame, :
//filepath/ESS7CH.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18
encountered in system file
using the package foreign does the same.
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