However, it can be read in SPSS. The file is available on the web, as it corresponds to the raw database of the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey 2007 (http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/datasets/). It is a file that SPSS recognises; albeit the foreign package doesn't -hence my initial query.
José -----Original Message----- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 July 2008 15:50 To: Jose Iparraguirre D'Elia Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R] Reading SPSS .por files On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Jose Iparraguirre D'Elia wrote: > Thanks Brian, > > The error message reads as follows: > > Error in read.spss("G:/Jose/Life and Times Survey/LT 2007/nilt07w1.por") : > error reading portable-file dictionary So it looks like it is not a portable file, or at least one that read.spss knows about. > > José > > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 July 2008 14:38 > To: Jose Iparraguirre D'Elia > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Reading SPSS .por files > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Jose Iparraguirre D'Elia wrote: > >> Does anyone know how to read SPSS .por (ie Portable) files? The foreign >> package only deals with SPSS .sav files and not with those with a "por" >> extension. > > Not so. ?read.spss says > > 'read.spss' reads a file stored by the SPSS 'save' or 'export' > commands. > > It says nothing about extensions, but it seems .por is commonly used in > the 'export' SPSS command, and there is an example in the test suite of > the foreign package. > > Did you actually try it? (If so, you failed to report the error message > you got.) > >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jos? >> >> >> >> Mr Jos? Luis Iparraguirre D'Elia >> >> Senior Research Economist >> >> Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland >> >> Floral Buildings >> >> 2 - 14 East Bridge Street >> >> Belfast BT1 3NQ >> >> Northern Ireland >> >> United Kingdom >> >> >> >> Tel: 028 9072 7350 >> >> Fax: 028 9031 9003 >> >> www.erini.ac.uk <http://www.erini.ac.uk/> >> >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
