[R] spss-data import

[Bernd Weiss]

Hello,

at the moment i am using spss as my favorite statistics 
package, but R seems an atractive alternative. Thanks to 
the R-Team for their great work! (I use R on my windows98 
laptop,P II and 64MB Ram).

I have a big(?) data set, containing more than 470 
variables and 3200 cases (size: 2.5MB). Whenever I use the 
command 'read.spss' (foreign-library), I got the the 
following warning massages: 
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Warning messages: 
1: d:/s3000.sav: File contains duplicate label for value 
0.5 for variable V50. 
2: d:/s3000.sav: File contains duplicate label for value 1 
for variable V50. 
3: d:/s3000.sav: File contains duplicate label for value 
0.5 for variable V63. 
4: d:/s3000.sav: File contains duplicate label for value 1 
for variable V63. 
[...]
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How do I interpret these warnings?

My next step was trying to save the spss-data as an ascii-
file (separated by tabs) and using the R command 
'read.table' -- R crashes. 

My third step was saving the spss-data as an ascii-file (in 
fixed format) and using again 'read.table'. I got:
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Error in read.table("d:/fixed.dat", header = T) : 
        all rows must have the same length.
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What went wrong? 

TIA

Bernd  


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