I fixed the problem. In this case the problem was really more with ReadStat, the software that wrote this file, but as I said I want PSPP to work with every file, not just ones that fit the format perfectly.
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:36:15AM +0200, ftr public wrote: > Thank you, too. I understand that you think the problem is more on the side > of PSPP and not caused by the ESS website generating files with errors . > > - ftr > > > On 24/07/2017 10:16, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >Thank you. I should be able to find and fix the problem later this week. > > > >On Jul 24, 2017 9:07 AM, "ftr public" <public....@free.fr > ><mailto:public....@free.fr>> wrote: > > > > Hello Be, > > > > Thank for offering your help. The original file is a cumulated > > multi-wave multi-country survey from the European Social Survey. > > It was so large (200 MB) that I downloaded a reduced version of > > 8.8 MB which - alas - creates the same error in PSPP: > > > > GET > > > > GET FILE="C:\Users\Toshiba\Downloads\ESS1-7e01 France.sav". > > > > erreur: 'C:\Users\Toshiba\Downloads\ESS1-7e01 France.sav' près du > > segment 0xe188 :Le nombre de lignes de ce document (0) doit être > > supérieur à 0 et inférieur à 26843545. > > > > Here is the sav file in question: https://we.tl/gigL21PtBp > > > > In RStudio which imports sav files the file was loaded without > > difficulties. > > > > In RKward which imports sav files the same file produced the > > following error message : > > > > Warning in read.spss("C:/Users/Toshiba/Downloads/ESS1-7e01 France.sav", > > : > > C:/Users/Toshiba/Downloads/ESS1-7e01 France.sav: Number of elements > > per case (0) is not between 1 and 134217727 > > Error in read.spss("C:/Users/Toshiba/Downloads/ESS1-7e01 France.sav", : > > error reading system-file header > > > > > > Thanks, > > ftr > > > > On 22/07/2017 23:35, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >> I would be pleased to help fix this problem with PSPP. Are you > >> able to send a copy of the file that causes the problem? You can > >> send it privately to me, if necessary, and I will not share it > >> further. > >> > >> On Jul 22, 2017 9:44 PM, "ftr public" <public....@free.fr > >> <mailto:public....@free.fr>> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> I downloaded a spss sav file from the official site of the > >> European Social Survey and was not able to open it, getting > >> the following error message: > >> C:/... /ESS1-7e01.sav: Number of elements per case (0) is not > >> between 1 and 134217727. > >> The same message appeared in RKWard when using the R app > >> foreign. But JASP opened it without difficulties. So the file > >> can be read. > >> > >> Any ideas how to open it in PSPP? > >> TIA > >> -ftr > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Pspp-users mailing list > >> Pspp-users@gnu.org <mailto:Pspp-users@gnu.org> > >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users > >> <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
