On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Baize, Harold wrote: > > Bj?rn Stollenwerk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I had and still have got the same problem. There were two columns in the > > data frame which contain just missing values. When I deleted those the > > impord seemed to work, but there is still a warning message. > > > Warning message: > > C:\test.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 13 encountered in > > system file. > > This warning message has been discussed a few times. It occurs when > read.spss reads a file from SPSS 12.0 or higher. Beginning with SPSS 12 > the file format was changed to accommodate long variable names. It seems > logical that SPSS added a record to their file format to hold the long > variable names, while keeping the short (eight character) variable names > to be compatible with older versions. The read.spss function has not > been updated. It reads the short names, ignores the long names, and > produces the warning you cite. There does not seem to be any error in > reading the data, other than the warning and continued use of short > variable names. I brought this up more than a year ago, just after SPSS > 12 was released. I e-mailed the author (Saikat DebRoy) of the read.spss > function, but did not get a response, I don't know if he got the > message. It would be nice to update the function to read the longer > variable names and be rid of the warning.
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