[R] spss-file problem with foreign 0.8-32

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It is a issue specific to 0.8-32 and some files (most likely those 
with some (not all) Windows codepages declared).

We are trying to collect together some examples, and will update 
foreign accordingly later in the week.

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Harry Haupt wrote:

>
> Hi,
> after updating to foreign version 0.8-32, I experienced the following error
> when I tried to load a SPSS file:
>
> Fehler in inherits(x, "factor") : objekt "cp" nicht gefunden
> Zusätzlich: Warning message:
> In read.spss("***l.sav", use.value.labels = TRUE, to.data.frame = TRUE) :
>  ***.sav: File-indicated character representation code (1252) looks like a
> Windows codepage
>
> It worked without problems with earlier versions.
>
> Thanks for any clues,
> best,
> Harry
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