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Hola Nose si alguien podría ayudarme a conocer por qué me sale este error cuando trato de convertir archivos de spss a R: Error en read.spss(file, use.value.labels = use.value.labels, to.data.frame = to.data.frame, : error reading portable-file dictionary Además: Warning message: In read.spss(file, use.value.labels = use.value.labels, to.data.frame = to.data.frame, : Bad character in time

Hi, I'm trying to import categorical data from SPSS to R using the script: xxx <-spss.get("xxx.por", use.value.labels=TRUE) but unfortunately am getting an error message 'error reading portable-file dictionary'. I have successfully imported data in the past. What could be the problem with this data? Thanks Simo

Hi, A frequently seen issue with importing SPSS data files, is that R does not import the 'long variable names'. I built a patch on the R-project's foreign module, in order to import the 'long variable names' from SPSS (record 7, subtype 13). To complete the job, I had to expand the "struct variable" definition to have 64 +1 charachters. I'm not aware of side

On 16 Apr, Unung Istopo Hartanto asked about using R library 'foreign' to import SPSS Data Entry data files. SPSS Data Entry is an application that allows for the creation of formatted data entry forms (as does EpiInfo, Epidata and CSPro (all free downloads)). As such it creates the usual SPSS data files, but adds forms information, which the 'foreign' package does not know how

Hello, I am having trouble reading an spss file into R. I have reset my working directory to the folder where this file is stored. This is what I've typed into R and the error message I received: + getwd() [1] "/Users/daviacox/Graduate School/PLS 801" > read.spss("norwil.spss") Error in read.spss("norwil.spss") : error reading portable-file dictionary

Hi, Does anybody know how to obtain the same information as the SPSS command "DISPLAY DICTIONARY". I know the read.spss function in the package foreign, but it doesn't give either the missing values defined by the user under SPSS or the format variables (for example if they are dates or not). Thanks in advance. Isaac Subirana (isubirana@imim.es) [[alternative HTML

Dear R-users, I'm facing a problem with the import of data in R. I have a sav file that, I presume, uses some Arabic encoding (but I don't know which one) and I would like to read it with R. When I use the function read.spss (I also tried spss.get(Hmisc)), I get the following message: > read.spss("Hhld.sav") Erreur dans read.spss("Hhld.sav") : erreur ? la lecture

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

Hi, There are two unanswered reports of this error (below) in read.spss() when used with a .por file. I had the same problem and in order to successfully read the file into R I downloaded spss, saved the data as .dat tab-delimited, and then used read.table(). The point is that spss successfully read the same .por data file (the Polity II data freely available from ICPSR) that R couldn't

Hi, I have a SPSS .sav file which contains a database of multiple tables, and each table contains multiple variables. I used read.spss function to load the data A<-read.spss("datafile.sav",to.data.frame = TRUE) I see variable names, but do not know how to retrieve the table (or all the variables corresponding to a table). -sophia

Hello R-help, I am trying to import a large dataset from SPSS into R. The SPSS file is in .SAV format and is about 1GB in size. I use read.spss to import the file and get an error saying that I have run out of memory. I am on a MAC OS X 10.5 system with 4GB of RAM. Monitoring the R process tells me that R runs out of memory when reaching about 3GB of RAM so I suppose the remaining 1GB is used up

Hi everyone, I'm trying to import .sps (SPSS portable file) file. the read.spss function (library foreign) doesn't allow to import such files. should I import in spss and then save as sav file? there is not other solutions available? what I mostly like from spss file is that they have variable labels. want is really wish to keep are the variable.labels from the spss file; so, if there is a

I'm using Fedora Core 4, R-2.2. The basic question is: can one recover the numerical values used in SPSS after importing data into R with read.spss from the foreign library? Here's why I ask. My colleague sent an SPSS data set. I must replicate some results she calculated in SPSS and one problem is that the numbers used in SPSS for variable values are not easily recovered in R. I'm

Dear all, I just received a file from a colleague in spss. The read.spss could not finish the file due to an error (Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18 encountered in system file) so instead I converted the file using stat-transfer. Looking at my data I see that most labels are in the attributes and I?d love to access them and assign the pertinent variables to factors without doing the whole

There is a problem when importing an spss-file containing explicitly declared missing values in R using the read.spss function from the foreign package. I'm not sure these problems are the same in every version of spss, I am using the latest version 16.0.2. I included http://www.nabble.com/file/p18776776/missingdata.sav missingdata.sav and

I'm using R 2.8.1 on Ubuntu 8.10. I'm writing partly to ask what's wrong, partly to tell other users who search that there is a work around. The General Social Survey is a long standing series of surveys provided by NORC (National Opinion Research Center). I have downloaded some years of the survey data in SPSS format (here's the site:

Does anyone know how to read SPSS .por (ie Portable) files? The foreign package only deals with SPSS .sav files and not with those with a "por" extension. Thanks, José Mr José Luis Iparraguirre D'Elia Senior Research Economist Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland Floral Buildings 2 - 14 East Bridge Street Belfast BT1 3NQ Northern Ireland United Kingdom

Hello all, kind regards, I have imported a data.frame from SPSS using "foreign":read.spss but unfortunately it is reading dates in a way neither R nor myself can understand. > book$DATE [1] 13502246400 13443321600 13477795200 13472956800 13501728000 13445395200 13501382400 13502851200 13444185600 13461465600 13457232000 [12] 13458096000 13432435200 13431484800 13495334400

Hi, is there any way to exchange (A LOT OF) data between SPPS and R/Splus, i.e., I want to get data from SPSS into R. It is a huge data frame with many columns being factors, so manual conversion is out of question (and there are more data to come). Exporting ASCII from SPSS seems to loose all level names, and the portable SPSS format doesn't look too nice. I've searched S-news and

Dear all, I get stuck when i try to export the data into SPSS format/file using "write.foreign()" Do you know how to do it exactly? What i have done is 1) First i type the following code in R: df<-data.frame(id,year,res1) names(df)<-c("idcode","year","resarrvl")