[R] value labels from read.spss()?

[Jonathan Baron]

>From owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Wed Jan  9 10:08:44 2002
>
>Does anyone know how to access/list the value labels stored in a SPSS .sav
>file?
>At the moment I can read in variables using read.spss() (foreign package),
>but have to power up SPSS to check value labels.
>
>Stuart

There may be a solution to this in R, and I would love to hear
it, but I was just faced with exactly this problem and I solved
it with the Unix "strings" command:

strings thefile.sav > thefile.txt

for example.  Jon Baron


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