No! That is variable labels.
Caveman On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Robert Baer <rb...@atsu.edu> wrote: >>> 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. > > This sequence seems to access the long filenames for me if I know what you > are asking for: > > library('foreign') > a<-read.spss('fil.sav') > lnames <- attr(a,"variable.labels",exact=FALSE) > > Rob > > > ______________________________________________ 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.