[R] Reading SPSS .por files

[Jose Iparraguirre D'Elia]

However, it can be read in SPSS. The file is available on the web, as it corresponds to the raw database of the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey 2007 (http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/datasets/). It is a file that SPSS recognises; albeit the foreign package doesn't -hence my initial query.

José

-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: 18 July 2008 15:50
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:

> 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

So it looks like it is not a portable file, or at least one that read.spss 
knows about.

>
> 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.)
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jos?
>>
>>
>>
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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