[R] SPSS long variable names

[joris meys]

Sorry to be so blunt, but I cannot believe PSPP can't save a dataset
as a .csv file for example. That should be the prefered format to
transport a dataset to any other statistical package, including R. csv
files are universal.

Cheers
Joris

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Orvalho Augusto <orvaquim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the answer.
>
> Hmisc uses read.spss from the foreign package. And so it does not
> solve my trouble.
>
> I need to read the long names on the SPSS dataset.
>
> Caveman
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:01 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> library(Hmisc) spss.get may do it but it's been some time since I used it.
>>
>> --- On Sat, 10/10/09, Orvalho Augusto <orvaquim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Orvalho Augusto <orvaquim at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [R] SPSS long variable names
>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Received: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 12:14 PM
>>> Hello guys I am new to this list and
>>> for R too.
>>>
>>> I am wondering if there is a patch for the SPSS reading
>>> code on the
>>> foreign package, in order to be able to read long variable
>>> names.
>>> Right now read.spss() just trunc the names to 8
>>> characters.
>>>
>>> Or if someone could help me on other way:
>>> I have to process everyday a lot of SPSS Syntax Files and
>>> Dat files
>>> that come from one system that can only export data on
>>> through that
>>> way.
>>>
>>> I use PSPP to generate the spss data file (sav) that I read
>>> with R.
>>> >From R I can export to MySQL, DBF and STATA to satisfy
>>> the needs of
>>> different guys here.
>>>
>>> The problem is the limit of 8 characters long on variable
>>> names.
>>>
>>> Can someone help on that?
>>>
>>> Caveman
>>>
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