[Rd] re ading SPSS .sav files (PR#13509)

[Peter Dalgaard]

HBaize wrote:
> 
> 
> I have experience the same problem reading SPSS sav files using R 2.8.0 and
> 2.8.1 on Windows XP and Tinn-R version 2.1.1.6. I'm using SPSS 17.0 so it is
> probably not related to SPSS version 11. I might add that I have been having
> problems interfacing Tinn-R 2.1.1.6 with R although it may be unrelated to
> the crash that results from attempting to read SPSS "sav" files.
> 
> Here is the code that results in the crash.
> 
> ## ---
> library(foreign)
> 
> scoresdat<- read.spss("H:/groups/evaluations/data/10101_012709_Scores.sav",
>                to.data.frame=TRUE) 

And what happens next? RGui crashes?

Is it possible to put the file on a webpage (or maybe a subset showing 
the same syptoms)? Without it, the problem is not really reproducible by 
anyone but you.


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