On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Jose Iparraguirre D'Elia wrote:
Thanks Brian,
The error message reads as follows:
Error in read.spss("G:/Jose/Life and Times Survey/LT 2007/nilt07w1.por") :
error reading portable-file dictionary
So it looks like it is not a portable file, or at least one that read.spss
knows about.
José
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From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 July 2008 14:38
To: Jose Iparraguirre D'Elia
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Reading SPSS .por files
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Jose Iparraguirre D'Elia wrote:
Does anyone know how to read SPSS .por (ie Portable) files? The foreign
package only deals with SPSS .sav files and not with those with a "por"
extension.
Not so. ?read.spss says
'read.spss' reads a file stored by the SPSS 'save' or 'export'
commands.
It says nothing about extensions, but it seems .por is commonly used in
the 'export' SPSS command, and there is an example in the test suite of
the foreign package.
Did you actually try it? (If so, you failed to report the error message
you got.)
Thanks,
Jos?
Mr Jos? Luis Iparraguirre D'Elia
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