Message-ID: <4FDA97D8-2386-489D-8148-6143E377F86A@r-project.org>
Date: 2009-09-14T16:09:30Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: Problem reading SPSS-file in R!
In-Reply-To: <BLU135-W438E551DBC5704C41BB0FBAE40@phx.gbl>
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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