On Jun 18, 2010, at 10:44 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
On Jun 18, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Larry Hotchkiss wrote:
Hi,
I repeatedly get an error when trying to read an SPSS v. 18 .sav
file into R.
No, you did not get an error message.
require(foreign)
Loading required package: foreign
femaleSPSS.dat <- read.spss("female-04-02-2010.sav")
Warning message:
In read.spss("female-04-02-2010.sav") :
female-04-02-2010.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18
encountered in system file
However, read.spss works for .sav files created in older versions
of spss.
I did just reinstall foreign to be sure I have the latest version.
Does anyone know of an update that works?
What makes you think it didn't work? It was _only_ a warning message
after all. Have you looked at femaleSPSS.dat in your workspace?
Had you done a search of the archives you would have found many such
early discussions:
RSiteSearch("Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18 encountered in
system file")
I realized looking at this that my standard operating procedure (these
days) was to use RSiteSearch() as a way to get to the webpage, and
then when I realize that it no longer actually looks at the archives
of r-help to turn off all of the default settings and turn on all of
the archive settings. I earlier tried to craft a substitute function
that would send the site an r-help-centric request, but found that the
search engine would not accept my guess at the correct parameters for
the three time periods that I am generally finding useful material
within:
R-help 2008-2009
R-help 2010-
R-help 2002-2007
I am aware that the sos package might be a more flexible set of tools,
but I really like the RSiteSearch format. I've just looked at the code
and it appears the functions settings have been updated. This would do
the trick:
RSiteSearch("Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18 encountered in
system file", restrict=c("Rhelp10", "Rhelp08", "Rhelp02"),
matchesPerPage = 100)
And now I have the facilities to make my desired function:
rhelpSearch <- function(string,
restrict = c("Rhelp10", "Rhelp08", "Rhelp02",
"functions" ),
matchesPerPage = 100, ...)
RSiteSearch(string=string, restrict = restrict,
matchesPerPage = matchesPerPage, ...)
#testing:
> RHSrch("Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18 encountered in
system file")
# Succeeds
Thanks to whomever updated RSiteSearch.
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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