I was wondering why it is possible to read long labels from the CVS files but not from the SPSS files. I did not have much time to search for the code but I found:
in foreign_0.8-10 source file var.h.in > /* Definition of the max length of a short string value, generally > eight characters. */ > #define MAX_SHORT_STRING ((SIZEOF_DOUBLE)>=8 ? ((SIZEOF_DOUBLE)+1)/2*2 > : 8) > #define MIN_LONG_STRING (MAX_SHORT_STRING+1) > > /* FYI: It is a bad situation if sizeof(R_flt64) < MAX_SHORT_STRING: > then short string missing values can be truncated in system files > because there's only room for as many characters as can fit in a > R_flt64. */ > #if MAX_SHORT_STRING > 8 > #error MAX_SHORT_STRING must be less than 8. > #endif I am am right then there was a restriction in the year 2000 because the files are from the year 2000. Now there are some questions: Did I found the right code? is it possible that anybody could recompile this with long value names or where is the best manual for a quick start in compiling packages. I found a couple of weeks before a tread where anybody wrote a complete way for building packages. He described all problems of him and there were a lot of hints for the first steps, but I am not able to find it again - I don't know the search terms which I used before :-( with regards Knut ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
