[R] Error in read.spss() for .por files

[Anders Schwartz Corr]

Hi, There are two unanswered reports of this error (below) in read.spss() 
when used with a .por file. I had the same problem and in order to 
successfully read the file into R I downloaded spss, saved the data as 
.dat tab-delimited, and then used read.table(). The point is that spss 
successfully read the same .por data file (the Polity II data freely 
available from ICPSR) that R couldn't read. So, I assume this is a bug in 
R.

> politydata<-read.spss("polityii.por")
Error in read.spss("polityii.por") : error reading portable-file 
dictionary
In addition: Warning message:
Expected variable count record in: read.spss("polityii.por")
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