[Rd] 8 char labels in read.spss

[Knut Krueger]

Thomas Lumley schrieb:

> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Knut Krueger wrote:
>
>> I was wondering why it is possible to read long labels from the CVS
>> files but not from the SPSS files.
>
>
> The SPSS file formats are not documented, and so we rely on the code 
> from PSPP.

I found a definition of the SPSS files.
http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=spssdata
but they recommend to use the spss input/output dll to ensure upward 
compatbility

Regards Knut