[R] SPSS long variable names

[Orvalho Augusto]

Robert you are right. I updated the foreign package and I can read
long names now!!!!

I have checked the changelog and I found that long names reading were
introduced after 0.8.29 while I were using 0.8.26-1.

So I am really sorry guys for this mess. R can read long names.

Caveman


On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Orvalho Augusto <orvaquim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Impressive!
>
> PSPP produces the sav fine. The sav file produced by the PSPP is seen
> by SPSS (16) with the long names.
>
> I attach my sav produced by the PSPP. And I start to suspect my
> foreign package version:
> I am using 0.8.26-1 from the r-cran-foreign a Ubuntu 8.10 package. Can
> you tell me your version? I am updating mine.
>
> Thanks guys.
>
> Caveman
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Robert  Baer <rbaer at atsu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>> The problem is the limit of 8 characters long on variable
>>>>>>> names.[in read.spss??????]
>>
>> I just created a file in SPSS 17 and saved it in standard format (.sav) The
>> file had four unique variable NAMES which were much longer than 8 characters
>> (although not 64).  I entered two rows of data and saved the file again. The
>> "variable view" in SPSS looked like the following for the 4 variables I
>> created.  (unique in the first postition after the first 9)
>>
>> a12345678901234567890987654321098765432011111111111111 Numeric 8 2
>> a1234567890 None None 14 Right Scale
>> a1234567899123456789098765432109876543201 Date 9 0 b1234567890 None None 14
>> Right Scale
>> a1234567898123456789098765432109876543201 String 8 0 c1234567890 None None
>> 14 Left Nominal
>> a1234567897123456789098765432109876543201 Numeric 8 2 d1234567890 None None
>> 14 Right Scale
>>
>> I now started R and used read.spss() from the foreign package using the
>> following code"  The data frame I read in seemed to reflect the original
>> file with respect to column names:
>>
>>> library(foreign)
>>> c=read.spss(file.choose(),to.data.frame=TRUE)
>>> c
>>
>>  a12345678901234567890987654321098765432011111111111111
>> a1234567899123456789098765432109876543201
>> a1234567898123456789098765432109876543201
>> 1                                                   33.3 13452825600
>>                          a cat
>> 2                                                   22.2 13463280000
>>                          dog
>>  a1234567897123456789098765432109876543201
>> 1                                     32165
>> 2                                 321654987
>>
>> It appears these long variable names read in just fine.  Thus, I would ask
>> caveman whether the problem is really an R problem at all, or is it a
>> problem with PSPP writing (in which case this would be the wrong list to be
>> discussing it on)?
>>
>> R
>>
>