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Hello, Peter, I tried it out: iconv(names(attributes(spss[,'Y6'])[[1]][14]), "UTF-8", "LATIN1", sub='byte') yielded [1] "<c4>rzte Chirurgie" and c4 corresponds in most encodings to ?. What can I do next? I wonder whether there is a more comfortable way then to change the occurences of <..> by the adequate character. Regards, Matthias

Hi, R Devils, I'm running the actual R version in JGR (version 1.5-8 ). Sys.getlocale(category = "LC_ALL") yields [1] "LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252;LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252;LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252" I want to write some HTML-Code enhanced by statistical results and labels encoded in Latin-1, which I pass to a function.

I couldn't find out how the following to solve: There is a column in a data.frame: > d[, 'Y6'] [1] 6 3 8 11 8 9 6 8 3 5 10 15 NA 9 8 3 8 16 6 6 NA 10 5 2 7 7 6 16 7 15 7 10 12 8 7 12 12 16 7 6 8 8 15 6 [45] NA 8 99 7 12 8 9 16 7 16 8 7 7 1 15 12 8 7 10 7 8 7 8 9 8 6 6 8 6 16 11 5 11 11 1 11 3 7 7 10 10 10 6 11 [89] 16 NA

Hi! I'm having trouble with importing spss files containing non-ascii characters (R 2.4.1, debian linux, i386). To reproduce: Download the following file: http://statmath.wu-wien.ac.at/data/spss/de/comphomeneu.sav require (foreign) Sys.setlocale (locale="C") read.spss("comphomeneu.sav")$ARBEIT[1] # prints: # [1] im B\374ro # Levels: im B\374ro zuhause \374 of course

Hi, I'm running the actual R version in JGR (version 1.5-8 ). Sys.getlocale(category = "LC_ALL") yields [1] "LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252;LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252;LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252" I want to write some HTML-Code enhanced by statistical results and labels encoded in Latin-1, which I pass to a function. Some

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'

Dear R users, I am trying to get R to read an .sav data file generated in SPSS 17 for Mac. Here is the command and the error message: > data = read.spss('/Users/userdir/Desktop/filename.sav') Error in iconv(names(rval), cp, "") : unsupported conversion In addition: Warning message: In read.spss("/Users/userdir/Desktop/filename.sav") :

Hi all. I have an SPSS file that I'm loading into R with the Hmisc spss.get function. The trouble is that the SPSS file uses the Windows-1252 character set (which I think is the default for SPSS on Windows) instead of plain-ol' Latin-1, and since spss.get doesn't allow me to pass the "reencode" option to read.spss, any characters in Windows-1252 that are not a part of Latin-1

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

Dear all, Is there a quick and easy way of converting utf characters to the \uxxxx form (necessary e.g. for packages)? I mean something working like this: > utf2uxxxx("õäöü") [1] "\u00f5\u00e4\u00f6\u00fc" It is easy to program but perhaps someone already has implemented this. (I couldn't find anything useful from searches incl RSiteSearch). Thanks in advance, Kenn

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

Being italians when writing comments/instructions we use accented letters - like ?, ?, ?, etc.... when running R scripts using such characters I get and error saying: invalid multibyte character in parser I have been looking at the help and searched the r-help archives but I haven't find anything that I could intelligibly apply to my case. Can anyone suggest a fix for this error? Thanks,

I must be missing something obvious here: According to the help page for read.spss, the reencode option is only active when R is run under a UTF-8 locale. read.spss can only import the SPSS file when run under a iso88591(5) locale, under a UTF-8 locale I get: Error in read.spss("wo.sav") : error reading system-file header In addition: Warning message: In read.spss("wo.sav")

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

I'm using R Version 2.6.1 under Windows XP. > search() [1] ".GlobalEnv" "s" "s" "package:cairoDevice" [5] "package:datasets" "package:foreign" "package:graphics" "package:grDevices" [9] "package:gWidgetsrJava"

Dear all, I am trying to conduct an enhanced version of factor analysis with a SPSS interface that allows to use R. This approach has been suggested in the recent article: Basto, M. and J.M. Pereira An SPSS R-Menu for Ordinal Factor Analysis. Journal of Statistical Software 46, pp. 1-29. My variables are ordinal-type and the tool of Basto allows to run polychoric correlations in the SPSS

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:

Hi, It works for me to import spss datasets via library(foreign) with read.spss or via library Hmisc by (spss.get). But no matter which way I do import the data, user-defined missings from Spss are always lost. (it makes no difference if there are a single value, a range, or any combination of them. They are always ignored). Is there any way in R to find out if any value was user-defined missing

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

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