Hello guys I am new to this list and for R too. I am wondering if there is a patch for the SPSS reading code on the foreign package, in order to be able to read long variable names. Right now read.spss() just trunc the names to 8 characters.
Or if someone could help me on other way: I have to process everyday a lot of SPSS Syntax Files and Dat files that come from one system that can only export data on through that way. I use PSPP to generate the spss data file (sav) that I read with R. >From R I can export to MySQL, DBF and STATA to satisfy the needs of different guys here. The problem is the limit of 8 characters long on variable names. Can someone help on that? Caveman ______________________________________________ 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.
