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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'

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

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

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") :

Dear R-users, I am using R version 2.10.1 and package foreign version 0.8-39 under windows. When reading .sav-Files (PASW Statistics 18.0.1) containing string variables, these are automatically converted to factors when using option "to.data.frame = TRUE" (see example below). It's clear to me why this happens (the default behaviour of a call to as.data.frame). But this is not

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 All: I have a seemingly typical SPSS data file with 219 rows and 486 variables. When I attempt to read this file into R with read.spss() in the foreign package, I consistently get a "crash". This is the sequence of events: > library(foreign) > sessionInfo() R version 2.7.1 Patched (2008-07-24 r46120) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United

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

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

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

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

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")

Good day My name is Jos? Oscar, I'm from Mexico and I have some questions about foreign in your write.foreig( ) function. We know that this function generates the inputs to be able to run them or execute them in another program like SPSS, SAS or Stata. In these cases, when creating an example file, a matrix and using the function to execute the .sps file directly from SPSS, I don't care or

....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

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, I'm running R 2.8.1 on Ubuntu, and today I got updates for a couple of packages, including foreign (r-cran-foreign, now at version 0.8.32). Subsequent to the upgrade, attempts to invoke read.spss produce the following error: Error in inherits(x, "factor") : object "cp" not found and the call to read.spss fails. I forced a downgrade to 0.8.26, and read.spss

*Dear R community* * * *I have two questions on data subsample manipulation. I am starting to use R again after a long brake and feel a bit rusty.* * * *I want to select a subsample of data for males and females separately* * * library(foreign) Datatemp <- read.spss("H:/Skjol/Data/HL/t1and2b.sav", use.value.labels = F) > table(Datatemp$sex) 1 2 3049 3702

Hello, as I import '.sav' files from SPSS, the variable names are shortened to 8 uppercase characters: "sex_of_therapist" will become "SEX_OF_TH" Is there a way around this? How can I retrieve the full names? Greets from Southern Germany, Timo Stolz

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