Message-ID: <200803122059.24726.maillists@nic.fi>
Date: 2008-03-12T18:59:24Z
From: K. Elo
Subject: SPSS import problem
In-Reply-To: <607932F452339B4AB482F86477B3B96AE1F7E7@medexmp01.ad.med.miami.edu>
Hi again,
many thanks for Your answers. So, if I understood Wei right:
Zhao, Wei (Cancer Center) wrote (12.3.2008):
> I had a similar problem when read one of my spss.sav with long
> variable label. But when I read another spss.sav with short label the
> same way, I don't have problem.
> Seems like R only allows variable labels of lengths 1...255 as your
> error message showed.
Searching (in SPSS) all variable labels of length > 255 and coercing
them to the length of 255 should solve the problem.
@Brian, who wrote:
> read.spss() is not targetted at such a recent version of SPSS, and
> only allows variable labels of lengths 1...255.
I can save the data in SPSS ver 7 -format, too. Is this version
supported by the import function?
However, the error message "error reading system-file header" gives the
impression that the problem is somewhere else than in the overlength
labels. Or have I understood something wrong?
Unfortunately, I cannot make the whole data file available. I could make
a snapshot resulting in the same error - would that be helpful?
Kind regards,
Kimmo