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

[Peter Dalgaard]

Leo Evangelista wrote:
> Sir/Madam,
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> Installed in my computer is the Version 2.9.1(2009-06-26)  of R. I have a
> SPSS.sav file produced by SPSS Version 17.
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>> install.('foreign')
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>> library(foreign)
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> <- read.spss("f:/sme.sav",use.value.labels=FALSE)
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> Warning message:
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> In read.spss("f:/sme.sav", use.value.labels = FALSE) :
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>   f:/sme.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18 encountered in system
> file
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> I have tried so may times running some conditions I think may have caused
> these errors to recur(including re-installing the R).
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> I am at my wit's end on how to make the read.spss work. Please help!

It's a warning, not an error. Did you not get a result returned from
read.spss(...) ??

(This is hardly R-devel material, and your R is a year out of date.)

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Peter Dalgaard
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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