Thank you for your answer.
I did try this but got similar errors. I tried all the other
spss-specific formats with same result.
A way to get access to the data is: save in sas-xport format (though
all labels are lost) then save in another sas-format and asking spss to
also save value labels
Thank you Michael
I think you point to the real cause of the problem.
I solved my own immediate problem by using StatTransfer to transfer from
sav to sav.
My real concern is that the read.spss() function will become obsolete.
Most of the data I have received in the last year have had those
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Finn Sand? wrote:
My real concern is that the read.spss() function will become obsolete.
Most of the data I have received in the last year have had those
problems (and increasingly so), now they have become so serious that the
import process fails all together.
Therefore I
Finn Sandø fs at fs-analyse.dk writes:
When I try to import an spss sav file with read.spss() I am getting the
following error
'Error in read.spss(X:\\.sav) : error reading system-file header'
and the import process is aborted.
I have tried in v. 2.3.0 and 2.3.1
The sav-file loads
Question 2: Try saving the data as an SPSS portable file. I never had
trouble reading these in R.
Finn Sandø wrote:
When I try to import an spss sav file with read.spss() I am getting the
following error
'Error in read.spss(X:\\.sav) : error reading system-file header'
and the import
Hi Jake,
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
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:
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
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()
Jake -
Very puzzling that a freshly-written copy of the file gives the
same problem.
As to your second question, my recollection is that read.spss()
will be in package 'foreign'. The absolute reference is the
source code itself, and this is often quite readable, whether
it's commented or not.
David Baird has created a free data conversion utility
called dataload. See
http://www.vsn-intl.com/genstat/downloads/dataload.htm
It can translate SPSS files into other formats
including several that are readable by R (including csv
and rda). I don't use SPSS myself but I have used
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
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.
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Subject: RE: [R] read.spss Error reading system-file header
David Baird has created a free data conversion utility
called dataload. See
http://www.vsn-intl.com/genstat/downloads/dataload.htm
It can translate SPSS files into other formats
including several that are readable by R (including csv
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