Frank E Harrell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Speaking of read.spss, which I have found handles labels and value labels
> very well, I am having a difficulty with character variables ending up as
> factors even when the number of levels equals the number of observations.
> I would be nice to have an option to keep character variables as-is (the
> sas.get function in Hmisc provides many options for this).
Will the max.value.labels not help? (otherwise, as.character should)
BTW, we seem to have a bug:
x <- read.spss(
"/home/pd/R-1.8.1/tests/Packages/foreign/tests/electric.sav",
max=1)
x$FAMHXCVR
gives
[1] "Y" "N" "N" "Y" "N" "N" "N" "N" "N" "Y" "Y" "N" "Y" "Y" "Y" "N" "N" "N"
...
[235] "N" "N" "N" "N" "N" "N"
attr(,"value.labels")
YES NO
"Y " "N "
but a higher level of max gives all NA. Looks like trailing blanks in
value labels isn't handled right.
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