[R] Importing data

[Michael Dewey]

At 11:46 06/01/2008, Simo Vundla wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm trying to import categorical data from SPSS to R using the script:
>xxx <-spss.get("xxx.por", use.value.labels=TRUE) but unfortunately 
>am getting an error message 'error reading portable-file dictionary'.
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>I have successfully imported data in the past.

In my experience there is quite a high failure rate with files which 
people send me and which they claim to be in SPSS save format or SPSS 
portable format. If they have a reasonably recent version of SPSS 
then ask them to save it in Stata format which at least in my 
experience is a more robust process.


>What could be the problem with this data?
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>Thanks
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