A couple of months ago, probably using an older version of R, R used to run the following code just fine:

 library("foreign")
 data.exp1 <- as.data.frame(read.spss("dataDef.sav"))

Issuing the same commands now (after starting R using --vanilla), gives me the following behavior:

> library("foreign")
> x <- read.spss("dataDef.sav")
Error in read.spss("dataDef.sav") : Calloc could not allocate (-2147483648 of 1) memory
> x <- read.spss("dataDef.sav")
> x <- read.spss("dataDef.sav")
Segmentation fault


The first two assignments return instantaneously, after the second x contains all original SPSS variable/column names but no data, after the last read.spss - it takes a while before R returns with the Segmentation fault. During that time, the harddisk seems to be working quite hard.

Does anyone know what the problem might be?

- Hedderik.

> version
         _
platform i386-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i386
os       linux-gnu
system   i386, linux-gnu
status
major    1
minor    7.1
year     2003
month    06
day      16
language R

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