[R] read.spss 'error reading system-file header'

[Ulrich Keller]

Question 2: Try saving the data as an SPSS portable file. I never had 
trouble reading these in R.

Finn Sandø wrote:
> When I try to import an spss sav file with read.spss() I am getting the 
> following error
> 'Error in read.spss("X:\\xxxx.sav") : error reading system-file header' 
> and the import process is aborted.
> I have tried in v. 2.3.0 and 2.3.1
> The sav-file loads without problems in spss v14 I have tried saving in 
> older spss v7 but are getting the same result.
> The read.spss() has other errors (the 'Unrecognized record type 7, 
> subtype 7 encountered in system file') but it does not seem to have any 
> impact.
> This leads me to thinking that the spss.read() slowly is growing out of 
> date which would be sad.
> So question 1:
> Does anyone know if these problems are going to be solved? I know the 
> read.spss() function is build on the PSPP project so maybe it takes 
> someone with c-knowledge to do something about it.
> If someone is going to work on the problem I will be happy to help by 
> testing and providing problematic test-files.
> Question 2
> Is there some way to import spss-sav files in this case other than save 
> in a non-spss format?
> Regards
> FS
>
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