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Greetings, How to I read in SPSS .sav files into R. Thank you. David ===================================== David Kaplan, PhD Professor of Education School of Education University of Delaware Newark DE 19716 Voice: 302-831-8696 Fax: 302-831-4110 email: mailto:dkaplan at udel.edu Homepage:

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

Hi When I use the read.table function with header = T, I notice that it gives me the variable names along the top as I expect. But, when I then attempt an analysis, e.g. regression, it doesn't recognize the variable names. Am I missing a step. Thank you David [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, Are there any incompatibilities with R 2.3.1 and SPSS 14.0 with regard to the read.spss command? Thanks in advance. David -- ======================================================================== David Kaplan, Ph.D. Professor Department of Educational Psychology University of Wisconsin - Madison Educational Sciences, Room 1061 1025 W. Johnson Street Madison, WI 53706 email: dkaplan

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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

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

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

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

....in example data <- read.spss("c:/data.sav",use.value.label=F,to.data.frame=T) try help(read.spss) ! regards,christian kjetilh at umsanet.edu.bo schrieb am 28.08.02 02:08:39: > Hola! > > Can the foreign package now read data from spss 10? > > Kjetil Halvorsen > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-help

Hi all, My apologies for a very simple question. I just downloaded R 2.6.0. I want to bring in all of the objects from 2.5.0 that I see when I type ls(). I have no idea how to do that. Thanks in advance. David -- ======================================================================= David Kaplan, Ph.D. Professor Department of Educational Psychology University of Wisconsin - Madison

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

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