[R-SIG-Mac] Problem reading SPSS-file in R!

[Simon Urbanek]

On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:25 , Johan Ohlander wrote:

>
> Hello,
> I am using the latest version of R (2.9.2 GUI 1.29 Tiger build 32- 
> bit (5464)) and SPSS version 16.0. This is on a MacBook with OSX  
> Snow Leopard. I have a problem reading an SPSS-file in R.
>
> I do as following:
>
> require(foreign)
> mydata <- read.spss("filename.sav",use.value.labels = TRUE,  
> to.data.frame = TRUE)
>
> but I only get the answer:
>
> re-encoding from latin9
> Error in iconv(names(rval), cp, "") :
>  unsupported conversion from 'latin9' to ''
>

latin9 is not a supported alias on OS X, you may want to use the full  
name of the encoding, i.e., reencode="ISO-8859-15" (if it is really  
latin9).

[It probably needs to be fixed either in foreign (because it should  
know better than to not use latin9) or in R (if we want to support the  
latin9) ...]

Cheers,
Simon


>
> Does anybody have an idea why this happens and also what I can do to  
> make things work as they should. I have no problem with my work  
> computer, that has Windows and SPSS version 15.0.
> Many thanksJohan
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