Thomas Lumley schrieb:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Knut Krueger wrote: > >> I was wondering why it is possible to read long labels from the CVS >> files but not from the SPSS files. > > > The SPSS file formats are not documented, and so we rely on the code > from PSPP. At the time, PSPP did not read long variable names. It > now does, so it would be possible for someone update the SPSS-reading > code to handle long variable names. This is much more complicated > than just changing a #define; the long variable names are stored in a > different part of the file. > > I don't expect anyone on R-core to get around to this any time soon. > If you want to try, the current PSPP code is at > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp Thanks for your reply, unfortunatlley the link is broken and gnu.org is linking to the same page http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html ... Knut ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
