Re: [Rd] (PR#9896) read.spss converts string variables with

2007-09-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The problem here is that the values in the data do not have trailing blanks, and the corresponding values in the label table do. That's an issue about the specific SPSS file, not mentioned in this report. Take a look at the data read with use.value.labels=FALSE: read.spss(problem_file.sav,

Re: [Rd] (PR#9896) read.spss converts string variables with

2007-09-05 Thread honza
--=_20070905112441_38848 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I am sending two files attached. The file problem_file.sav was saved in SPSS 10.0. It contains variables of various types, with and without labeling etc., so that you can make experiments.

Re: [Rd] (PR#9896) read.spss converts string variables with

2007-09-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Thank you. If anyone wants to work on a patch I've put the unencoded files from my direct copy at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/problem_file.sav http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/problem_file_read.RData I am afraid I won't have a chance to take a look for at least a couple of weeks. On

Re: [Rd] (PR#9896) read.spss converts string variables with value

2007-09-04 Thread ripley
There is nothing we can do to reproduce this without an example 'some.sav' file exhibiting the problem. Can you please supply one? On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Full_Name: Jan Hucin Version: 2.5.1 (foreign 0.8-20) OS: WinXP Submission from: (NULL) (195.113.83.7) When