This has come up before you might try http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/36694.html
The bottom line is that you either have to make sure that the SPSS datasets are in a format where no warnings come up or find a way to verify that no corruption is happening. As one of the posts mentions SPSS is not well documented, so it's a hazard that can't be easily solved. Tom > -----Original Message----- > From: Göran Broström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2004 4:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [R] read.spss: unrecognized record type > > > When reading an spss file, I get the following message: > > Warning message: > ../totmorH.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 13 > encountered in system file. > > What does it mean? Do I have to worry? The result looks as > expected. I do > not have (easy) access to SPSS, so I cannot check exactly > that I got what I > should have. > > Thanks, > > Göran > > And, I'm using R-2.0.1 on Debian testing (from source). > -- > Göran Broström tel: +46 90 786 5223 > Department of Statistics fax: +46 90 786 6614 > Umeå University http://www.stat.umu.se/egna/gb/ > SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html