Hi David, I'll let others flame you on this.
The question I have is why use the intermediate step of converting the file to *.csv format? The foreign library allows you to read SPSS *.tab files directly. The plus to doing it directly is that it has a higher probability of maintaining the correct variable types then does the use of a pure text format such as CSV. Dan On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 13:11 -0500, David Kaplan wrote: > Hi, > > No doubt I'm writing to the wrong R list and some cranky person will > flame me as a reminder, but I seem to have this problem just on the Mac > version of R. Here is the scenario. I am using SPSS on the PC to save > a file as a .csv. I then bring this file into R and have it read the > file as a .csv. When I look at the file in Mac Excel, it looks like a > regular spreadsheet without commas as I might expect. When I run the > model, I get the message > > Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, > na.strings, : > scan() expected 'a real', got '3196)' > > > The 3196 is the sample size used for this analysis and it is correct. I > can ask it to print the data and the correlation matrix, and everything > seems fine. There are no additional characters (such as a parentheses) > in the file. My students who are doing this analysis for a class > assignment do not seem to have a problem on the PC, so I am wondering if > anyone has encountered an incompatibility problems. > > Thanks in advance, and I apologize if this is the wrong list. > > David > -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
