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Recent changes to read.spss() in the foreign package return a dataframe containing additional attributes. For example, >TEMP<-read.spss(choose.files(), to.data.frame=T,use.value.labels=F) > str(TEMP) `data.frame': 780 obs. of 8 variables: $ EXPOS01: atomic 1 1 2 1 2 3 2 4 2 1 ... ..- attr(*, "value.labels")= Named num 5 4 3 2 1 .. ..- attr(*,

> library(foreign) > da<-read.dta(file.choose()) > da startdat starttim enddate endtime days hoursmin secused 1 2005-01-11 2 2005-12-15 20.19 NA NA 9 > attributes(da) $datalabel [1] "Example of use of date and time functions" $time.stamp [1] "15 伿伄伓侢佋伮 2005 20" $names [1] "startdat" "starttim"

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:

A colleague pointed out that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has adopted a transport format defined by SAS Institute as a standard for electronic submissions of data. As a result, this format has been openly documented. The URL for the documentation on the format is http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote/ts140.html Information on the FDA standards for

Trying to open some SPSS .sav files (saved with SPSS 15) gives the following: read.spss('/data/big/unzipped_ukda/seh3767/3767SPSS_570D6A086C9A1B0636F13255F25A58C1/prgrp95.sav') Error in read.spss("/data/big/unzipped_ukda/seh3767/3767SPSS_570D6A086C9A1B0636F13255F25A58C1/prgrp95.sav"): error reading system-file header In addition: Warning message:

Hi, I have a valid SPSS .sav file (which I can open happily in SPSS v11 on Windows XP). Opening it in R2.41 on Linux we get this message :- > HSE3023 <- read.spss("HSE.sav") Error in read.spss("HSE.sav") : error reading system-file header In addition: Warning message: HSE.sav: Variable X234 indicates variable label of invalid length 256 Now variable X234 has indeed a

Hola, Tengo problemas a la hora de cargar un archivo que originalmente está en SPSS. Trabajo con Fedora y uso R mediante el plugin Rgedit en gedit. Además en Fedora no tengo SPSS, sino PSPP Para cargar el archivo he probado estas dos cosas (escribo también el mensaje de error que me genera R): >library_(foreign) >read.spss("guille.sav",to.data.frame = T) Error en

Forgive me if this isn't relevant, but: are you stripping off the output you need (e.g., parameter estimates) and throwing away what you don't (e.g., residuals)? Reid Huntsinger -----Original Message----- From: Saikat DebRoy [mailto:saikat at stat.wisc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 12:15 PM To: Han Lai Cc: R-help Subject: Re: [R] Is there any help for "Cannot allocate vector

Hi Jake, I had and still have got the same problem. There were two columns in the data frame which contain just missing values. When I deleted those the impord seemed to work, but there is still a warning message. Warning message: C:\test.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 13 encountered in system file. > Jake Wegelin wrote: > Is there any documentation on what kind of SPSS

I got the following: > library(foreign) > swal = read.spss("swallowing.sav", to.data.frame =TRUE) Warning message: In read.spss("swallowing.sav", to.data.frame = TRUE) : swallowing.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 21 encountered in system file > The bulk of the data seems to read in a usable form, but I'm curious about what might be getting lost

I am using read.spss in the foreign package to read an SPSS save file. For date variables I get huge values such as 11489990400. Does anyone know how to convert these values to R POSIXct date objects? Thanks in advance -Frank platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status major 1 minor

Did not seem to reach Saikat DebRoy, this might be the forum. Bendix -----Original Message----- From: BXC (Bendix Carstensen) Sent: 24. november 2008 15:00 To: 'saikat at stat.wisc.edu'; 'stvjc at channing.harvard.edu' Subject: read.ssd It's always annoyed me that that read.ssd crashed on datasets with long variable names, but the other day a collegue of mine pointed out to

Hello guys I am new to this list and for R too. I am wondering if there is a patch for the SPSS reading code on the foreign package, in order to be able to read long variable names. Right now read.spss() just trunc the names to 8 characters. Or if someone could help me on other way: I have to process everyday a lot of SPSS Syntax Files and Dat files that come from one system that can only export

Hello, I am interested in using nlme to model repeated measurements, but I don't seem to get good CIs. With the code below I tried to generate data sets according to the model given by equations (1.4) and (1.5) on pages 7 and 8 of Pinheiro and Bates 2000 (having chosen values for beta, sigma.b and sigma similar to those estimated in the text). For each data set I used lme() to fit a model,

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 List, While trying to define a customised CITATION file for a package, following R-exts, I realised that if I use only one 'citEntry' I got both a text description and a BibTex entry for the package, as for the 'nlme' package: -------------------------- citation('nlme') To cite package 'nlme' in publications use: Jose Pinheiro, Douglas Bates, Saikat

I've noticed quite a few messages relating to large data sets bedeviling R users, and having just had to program my way through one that actually caused a "Bus error" when I tried to read it in, I'd like to ask two questions. 1) Are there any facilities for aggregation of data in R? ( I admit that this will not do much for the large data set problem immediately) 2) Is there any

Hello, I've a .por file from 1998. I've tried to read it with library(foreign) read.spss("mhp_hu.por") at this point R simply stops working and my whole system is close to unusable I've found one related thread, but even there no real solution was given https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-February/125071.html Unfortunately, I have no SPSS, and I can't convert

When I try to import an spss sav file with read.spss() I am getting the following error 'Error in read.spss("X:\\xxxx.sav") : error reading system-file header' and the import process is aborted. I have tried in v. 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 The sav-file loads without problems in spss v14 I have tried saving in older spss v7 but are getting the same result. The read.spss() has other

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