[Rd] SPSS I/O dll was: 8 char labels in read.spss

[Knut Krueger]

Thomas Lumley schrieb:

>Yes, but it can't be incorporated in the  "foreign" package, which has a 
>GPL license, and in any case wouldn't work off Windows.  It's not clear 
>that it would be much easier than using the PSPP code in any case.
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Seems that it is easier to save as Excel files and using read.xls and if 
active pearl is not available open Excel and save as .csv file ...

or using 8 character variable identifier

Knut