On Tue, 9 May 2006, SUBIRANA CACHINERO, ISAAC wrote:
> Hi R-users,
>
> When I import a data base from SPSS with some variable with a name of
> more than 8 characters (which is possible in version 12 or later of SPSS
> software) I find that the name of these variables have been truncated to
> 8 characters. I used the 'read.spss' function from the 'foreign'
> package.
They have not been truncated by R. R reads the short variable names that
SPSS stores
There is no code in R to read the long variable names, or AFAIK any plans
to write any -- it isn't a high priority for the people who wrote
read.spss. The basic C code needed is in the GNU PSPP program, but it
would take some effort to extract it and put it in the foreign package. I
understand that SPSS also makes code available for reading SPSS files now,
and that could be used instead. We would welcome well-tested patches to
read.spss, but I don't think it will happen any other way.
-thomas
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