Jake - The error message and warnign message shown below say something is wrong with this file's SPSS system-file header. If you are really able to open this one in SPSS, do so, change maybe a column name or row name or two, and save it again under a different file name. See if read.spss() chokes on the new version too.
Caution - I'm just guessing, here, but it's something to try. - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Jacob Wegelin wrote: > > Is there any documentation on what kind of SPSS file can and cannot be > read by read.spss? Alternatively, how can one modify or "clean" an SPSS > file to make it readable by read.spss? What properties must a *.sav file > before read.spss can read it? > > The file in this example is 270KB, with 5 rows and 173 columns. I have no > trouble reading larger files with read.spss, so it's not merely a size > problem. I have no difficulty opening the file in SPSS. I also have no > trouble getting read.spss to read a dummy SPSS file with 5 rows and 173 > columns, where each entry was randomly sampled from c(letters, LETTERS). > > > library("foreign") > > junk<-read.spss("indata/z2EXvideo.sav") > Error in read.spss("indata/z2EXvideo.sav") : > Error reading system-file header. > In addition: Warning message: > indata/z2EXvideo.sav: File layout code has unexpected value 50331648. Value should > be 2, in big-endian or little-endian format. > > Thanks for any information > > Jake Wegelin > > > version > _ > platform i386-pc-mingw32 > arch i386 > os mingw32 > system i386, mingw32 > status > major 1 > minor 8.0 > year 2003 > month 10 > day 08 > language R > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help