re ad.spss (foreign) conflict with SPSS 17 files.
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
See the help page. We haven't been told but it looks like the Debian system is in a UTF-8 locale: reencode=FALSE is likely appropriate there. However, the posting guide does ask for the output of sessionInof() for a good reason.
Thank you very much; the Debian machine is indeed in a UTF-8 locale. All suggested values for the reencode parameter (utf8,ascii,FALSE) therefore do the trick.
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