re ading SPSS .sav files (PR#13509)

I have experience the same problem reading SPSS sav files using R 2.8.0 and
2.8.1 on Windows XP and Tinn-R version 2.1.1.6. I'm using SPSS 17.0 so it is
probably not related to SPSS version 11. I might add that I have been having
problems interfacing Tinn-R 2.1.1.6 with R although it may be unrelated to
the crash that results from attempting to read SPSS "sav" files.

Here is the code that results in the crash.

## ---
library(foreign)

scoresdat<- read.spss("H:/groups/evaluations/data/10101_012709_Scores.sav",
               to.data.frame=TRUE) 
## ---

I presumed the problem was with my installation of R, but repeated
reinstalls have not corrected the problem.

Full_Name: Roger Newton
Version: 2.8.1
OS: windows 2000
Submission from: (NULL) (80.176.228.157)


I have an elderly version of SPSS (version 11) which I still use. R
Version
2.6.1 would, and still will, read SPSS *.sav files produced by SPSS
version 11.
R version 2.8.1 which I installed two days ago (05/02/09) reports an error
and
shuts down when trying to read SPSS version 11 *.sav files using the
read.spss
function in package foreign.

R version 2.8.1 will read *.sav files produced by SPSS version 13.

The problem applies to all the existing SPSS files I had before I
downloaded R
2.8.1
and to several new SPSS 11 *.sav files I have produced since.

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