Jose Iparraguirre D'Elia wrote:
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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
Actually, no. I noticed that it had "8bit ascii" characters inside so on a hunch I sent it through iconv and got a different error message

> read.spss("xxx.por", use.value.labels=FALSE)
Error in read.spss("xxx.por", use.value.labels = FALSE) :
 file 'xxx.por' is not in any supported SPSS format

So read.spss() recognizes the format of the original file alright, it's just that something in the file does not match the format that read.spss() expects. It reads at least one .por file, namely the one that ships with the source for the foreign package in the tests directory (pbc.por). It is not unlikely that it can be confused by character set encodings and CR/LF inside value labels, though.

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