[R] Reading SPSS .por files

[Jose Iparraguirre D'Elia]

Thanks Brian,

The error message reads as follows:

Error in read.spss("G:/Jose/Life and Times Survey/LT 2007/nilt07w1.por") : 
  error reading portable-file dictionary

José

-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: 18 July 2008 14:38
To: Jose Iparraguirre D'Elia
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Reading SPSS .por files

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Jose Iparraguirre D'Elia wrote:

> Does anyone know how to read SPSS .por (ie Portable) files? The foreign 
> package only deals with SPSS .sav files and not with those with a "por" 
> extension.

Not so.  ?read.spss says

      'read.spss' reads a file stored by the SPSS 'save' or 'export'
      commands.

It says nothing about extensions, but it seems .por is commonly used in 
the 'export' SPSS command, and there is an example in the test suite of 
the foreign package.

Did you actually try it?  (If so, you failed to report the error message 
you got.)

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