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R for Windows GUI closes when I try to read.spss

3 messages · Roderick Harrison, Peter Dalgaard, N'DOYE Souleymane

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Roderick Harrison
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** High Priority **

I have been trying to read an SPSS file into R using 

read.spss ("C:/Documents and Settings/Roderick Harrison/My
Documents/RWORK/ihisdat.sav", use.value.labels = TRUE, to.data.frame =
FALSE,  max.value.labels = 500, trim.factor.names = FALSE, trim_values =
TRUE, reencode = NA, use.missings = to.data.frame)

Each time (at least 5 or 6 by now) I get the following Microsoft error
message and the R-Console crashes.

R for Windows GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to
close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.

I would greatly appreciate help with this as we need to use R to
estimate confidence intervals for NHIS data, and our deliverable is due
this week.  

Thanks in advance.
Peter Dalgaard
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Roderick Harrison wrote:
Well to you, it is...

In general people on this list are happy to help, but you need to supply 
them with something to go on, and there is just nothing here. At the 
very least, we'd need version numbers and preferably an example of a 
file that cannot load. On the off-hand guess that you might not have 
installed R 2.7.2 yet, you might want to try that since it has a couple 
of changes in read.spss relative to the foreign package from 2.7.1.
use.missings needs to be TRUE or FALSE, though. It _defaults_ to the 
same as to.data.frame.