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

[Anthony Damico]

are you able to install anything from github?  like

devtools::install_github( "hadley/dplyr" )



On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 9:36 AM, <katharina.manderscheid at posteo.de> wrote:

> unfortunately it failed with the installation of lodown:
>
>> devtools::install_github("ajdamico/lodown")
>>
> Downloading GitHub repo ajdamico/lodown at master
> from URL https://api.github.com/repos/ajdamico/lodown/zipball/master
> Installing lodown
> "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save
> \
>   --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL  \
>   "C:/Users/mandersk/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmpch0aTn/devtools18f
> 4305b4ab5/ajdamico-lodown-d235a3e"  \
>   --library="\\unetna01/mandersk$/Daten/R/win-library/3.3" --install-tests
>
> * installing *source* package 'lodown' ...
> ** R
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> *** arch - i386
> Warnung in library(pkg_name, lib.loc = lib, character.only = TRUE,
> logical.return = TRUE)
>   there is no package called 'lodown'
> Fehler: Laden fehlgeschlagen
> Ausführung angehalten
> *** arch - x64
> Warnung in library(pkg_name, lib.loc = lib, character.only = TRUE,
> logical.return = TRUE)
>   there is no package called 'lodown'
> Fehler: Laden fehlgeschlagen
> Ausführung angehalten
> ERROR: loading failed for 'i386', 'x64'
> * removing '\\unetna01/mandersk$/Daten/R/win-library/3.3/lodown'
> Error: Command failed (1)
>
> Am 01.05.2017 18:15 schrieb 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] [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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