[R] cannot load .sav-files in R 3.4.0

[Anthony Damico]

did my code work?  thanks

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 11:35 AM, <katharina.manderscheid at posteo.de> wrote:

> hi, thanks for the reply!
> it always worked until 3.4.0. i got warning but they did not stop R
> loading the file ...
>
> Am 01.05.2017 16:10 schrieb Anthony Damico:
>
>> hi, i don't think foreign::read.spss or haven::read_spss have ever
>> worked with a handful of the ess files, but library(memisc) does.  you
>> are better off loading ess with library(lodown) because the drudge
>> work has already been done--
>>
>>     library(devtools)
>>     devtools::install_github("ajdamico/lodown")
>>     library(lodown)
>>     ess_cat <- get_catalog( "ess" , output_dir = "C:/My Directory/ESS"
>> )
>>
>>     # which entries do you want?
>>     head(ess_cat)
>>
>>     # how about wave 7 only
>>     sub_ess_cat <- subset( ess_cat , wave == 7 )
>>
>>     # replace the email address with whatever you registered with
>>     lodown( "ess" , sub_ess_cat , your_email = "email at address.com" )
>>
>>     x <- readRDS( "C:/My Directory/ESS/2014/ESS7csCH.rds" )
>>
>>     # looks good
>>     head( x )
>>
>> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 6:22 AM, <katharina.manderscheid at posteo.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>> after updating R from 3.3.3. to 3.4.0 i cannot import spss-data
>>> files anymore. for the european social survey
>>> (europeansocialsurvey.org [1]) i get this warning:
>>> re-encoding from CP1252
>>> Fehler in levels<-(*tmp*, value = if (nl == nL)
>>> as.character(labels) else paste0(labels, :
>>> factor level [3] is duplicated
>>> Zusätzlich: Warnmeldung:
>>> In read.spss(file, use.value.labels = use.value.labels,
>>> to.data.frame = to.data.frame, :
>>> //filepath/ESS7CH.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18
>>> encountered in system file
>>>
>>> using the package foreign does the same.
>>>
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>>
>>
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