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SPSS seems to have changed its default datafile format, resulting in issues for read.spss(). In Windows this results in a warning, in Debian the import completely fails: Debian (R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) i486-pc-linux-gnu, foreign_0.8-29) > read.spss("/home/jeroen/samples/Tomato.sav") Error in iconv(names(rval), cp, "") : unsupported conversion from 'CP65001'

Hello, does anyone have experience with reading SPSS Version 15.0 files into R (version 2.4.1, WinXP)? I have long been sucessfully reading SPSS files with read.spss from the wonderful foreign package, but somehow after upgrading from SPSS14 to SPSS15 I seem to have problems. Trying a simple example, where test.sav is a SPSS 15.0 data file consisting of x1=c(1,2,3) and

Dear R users! I am using R Version 1.7.1, Windows XP, package "foreign" (Version: 0.6-1), SPSS 11.5.1. There is one thing I noticed with "read.spss", and I'd like to ask if this is considered to be a feature, or possibly a bug: When reading character columns, character strings seem to get filled with blanks at the end. Simple example: In SPSS, create a file with one

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

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 encountered something strange with read.spss (package foreign, version 0.7 with R2.0.0 and version 0.8 with R2.0.1 beta, windows XP) I made a test file test.sav with SPSS version 11.5.1 containing only one numeric variable, with a value label for one value not occuring in the file. According to ?read.spss this should result in a factor, but it results in all NA. Using the argument

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")

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

Hi, after updating to foreign version 0.8-32, I experienced the following error when I tried to load a SPSS file: Fehler in inherits(x, "factor") : objekt "cp" nicht gefunden Zus?tzlich: Warning message: In read.spss("***l.sav", use.value.labels = TRUE, to.data.frame = TRUE) : ***.sav: File-indicated character representation code (1252) looks like a Windows

(I tried to send this earlier, but it doesnt seem to have come through, due to problems on my system) Hola: Both cannot be correct: > m <- matrix(1:4, 2) > svd(m) $d [1] 5.4649857 0.3659662 $u [,1] [,2] [1,] -0.5760484 -0.8174156 [2,] -0.8174156 0.5760484 $v [,1] [,2] [1,] -0.4045536 0.9145143 [2,] -0.9145143 -0.4045536 > La.svd(m) $d [1]

Hi, Because I'm new to R and trying to move off of SPSS, I have another question. I downloaded the "Foreign" package which I understand reads in various datasets from programs such as SPSS and SAS. There isn't much documentation that I can find regarding the specifics of this in the online docs, but I assume that it is like read.table. So, here is what I wrote and here is

The following code in clusplot.default (package cluster) is in error: x1 <- cmdscale(x, k = 2, eig = TRUE) var.dec <- sum(x1$eig)/sum(diag(x1$x)) if (var.dec < 0) var.dec <- 0 if (var.dec > 1) var.dec <- 1 x1 <- x1$points x1 has components with names "points" and "eig", not "x", so

When R prints warnings, they often go "out of the line", it would be better if they where wrapped with writeLines(strwrap ... I tried to do that , changing the function warnings, but it has only effect when called explicitely, not when R prints the warnings unasked. Anyhow, here is the changed warnings: warnings <- function (...) { if (!(n <- length(last.warning)))

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:

Full_Name: Roger Newton Version: 2.8.1 OS: windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (80.176.228.157) I have an elderly version of SPSS (version 11) which I still use. R Version 2.6.1 would, and still will, read SPSS *.sav files produced by SPSS version 11. R version 2.8.1 which I installed two days ago (05/02/09) reports an error and shuts down when trying to read SPSS version 11 *.sav files using

A couple of months ago, probably using an older version of R, R used to run the following code just fine: library("foreign") data.exp1 <- as.data.frame(read.spss("dataDef.sav")) Issuing the same commands now (after starting R using --vanilla), gives me the following behavior: > library("foreign") > x <- read.spss("dataDef.sav") Error

I know this is something R isn't meant to do well but I tried it anyway :) I have this SPSS-datafile (size 31 MB). When I converted it to a R object with read.spss("datafile.sav") I ended up with a .RData-file which was 229 MB big. Is this considered normal? Then I tried to dump that object into a database with RPgSQL-package function db.write.table(object) (Memory ran out first

Is there any documentation on what kind of SPSS file can and cannot be read by read.spss? Alternatively, how can one modify or "clean" an SPSS file to make it readable by read.spss? What properties must a *.sav file before read.spss can read it? The file in this example is 270KB, with 5 rows and 173 columns. I have no trouble reading larger files with read.spss, so it's not

I can't seem to figure out why I'm getting this error. The output is copied right off the screen. Notice how in some cases the back slash is missing. In other cases, it can't read a file that I know is there. Thanks in advance > library(foreign) > hrout <- read.spss("c:\\hrab200.sav") Error in read.spss("c:\\hrab200.sav") : unable to open file

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