Re: [R] read.spss (package foreign) and character columns

2003-08-28 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
RINNER Heinrich wrote: In R: library(foreign) test - read.spss(test.sav, to.data.frame=T) test XCHAR 1 a 2 ab 3 abcde levels(test$XCHAR) [1] a ababcde Shouldn't it rather be a ab abcde (no blanks)? I think, that should be no problem since the blanks in XCHAR may be easily

RE: [R] read.spss (package foreign) and character columns

2003-08-28 Thread RINNER Heinrich
noone will be surprised. Regards, Heinrich. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: RINNER Heinrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. August 2003 18:06 An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Betreff: [R] read.spss (package foreign) and character columns Dear R users! I am using R Version

[R] read.spss (package foreign) and character columns

2003-08-27 Thread RINNER Heinrich
Dear R users! I am using R Version 1.7.1, Windows XP, package foreign (Version: 0.6-1), SPSS 11.5.1. There is one thing I noticed with read.spss, and I'd like to ask if this is considered to be a feature, or possibly a bug: When reading character columns, character strings seem to get filled

Re: [R] read.spss (package foreign) and character columns

2003-08-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, RINNER Heinrich wrote: Dear R users! I am using R Version 1.7.1, Windows XP, package foreign (Version: 0.6-1), SPSS 11.5.1. There is one thing I noticed with read.spss, and I'd like to ask if this is considered to be a feature, or possibly a bug: When reading

Re: [R] read.spss (package foreign) and character columns

2003-08-27 Thread Douglas Bates
RINNER Heinrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear R users! I am using R Version 1.7.1, Windows XP, package foreign (Version: 0.6-1), SPSS 11.5.1. There is one thing I noticed with read.spss, and I'd like to ask if this is considered to be a feature, or possibly a bug: When reading