I pasted some of the error/warning message into Google and among other things:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21228518/what-is-attr-value-labels-when-reading-spss-into-r This might begin to explain what is happening. Is a data.frame created? Rick B. ________________________________ From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Siouxsie <sioux...@posteo.ch> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2017 6:23 AM To: R help Subject: [R] problem loading spss-files after updating R from 3.3.3. to 3.4.0 i cannot import spss-data files anymore. for the european social survey (europeansocialsurvey.org) i get this warning: re-encoding from CP1252 Fehler in levels<-(*tmp*, value = if (nl == nL) as.character(labels) else paste0(labels, : factor level [3] is duplicated Zus�tzlich: Warnmeldung: In read.spss(file, use.value.labels = use.value.labels, to.data.frame = to.data.frame, : //filepath/ESS7CH.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18 encountered in system file using the package foreign does the same. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fr-help&data=01%7C01%7Crab45%40pitt.edu%7C8c4c5ed34ae94d3df7d208d4908f3bd2%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1&sdata=FolAovtD1w5XU%2BBcEDGu7DLbRYGJIcEDWu%2BUCl9j9tA%3D&reserved=0 PLEASE do read the posting guide https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.R-project.org%2Fposting-guide.html&data=01%7C01%7Crab45%40pitt.edu%7C8c4c5ed34ae94d3df7d208d4908f3bd2%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1&sdata=xNrROh3MnSgpTaKT%2F6vi4ZT0ffXtmh7DbYh0IadrKa0%3D&reserved=0 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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