[R] read.spss problem

[Peter Dalgaard]

Davia Cox <coxdavia at msu.edu> writes:

> Hello,
> I am having trouble reading an spss file into R. I have reset my  
> working directory to the folder where this file is stored. This is  
> what I've typed into R and the error message I received:
> 
> + getwd()
> [1] "/Users/daviacox/Graduate School/PLS 801"
>  > read.spss("norwil.spss")
> Error in read.spss("norwil.spss") : error reading portable-file  
> dictionary
> In addition: Warning message:
> Expected variable count record
> 
> Please help, I don't have SPSS on my computer (I am re-analyzing some  
> data for a statistics project) so I can't alter the file that way.
> 
> Thanks again for your help.

Hmm, what kind of file is this? SPSS data files are generally called
.sav or .por. I wonder if you've got a "syntax file" on your hand,
i.e. a file containing program code. Is it readable as a text file?
 
> Davia
> 
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