Thank you for your responses. Here's the workaround. In SPSS, I saved the file EXvideo.sav as Excel. Still in SPSS, I read in this Excel file, and saved it under a new name, EXvideo-SPSStoExceltoSPSS.sav, as an SPSS file. This file I was able to read into R with no problem, using read.spss.
The dataload utility was able to convert some other SPSS files to xls, but not EXvideo.sav. Jake On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Thomas Lumley wrote: > 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? > > > > I don't think this is known. The read.spss code is taken from code in > PSPP, which was going to be a GNU implementation of SPSS. Judging from > some of the comments in the code, at least part of the format was worked > out from files, not documented. > > I haven't run across any problems in using it to read SPSS .sav files, but > most of the ones I have tried were created by the same people and don't > represent independent confirmations. > > -thomas > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
