Full_Name: Tim Bock
Version: 2.3.1
OS: Windows XP
Submission from: (NULL) (220.233.111.181)
SPSS v12 on Windows sometimes writes files with a layout_code of 3 instead of
the usual layout_code of 2. While I don't know what this signifies, R is able
to read these files if I change sfm-read.c to accept 3.
Also, R issues an unnecessary warning when it finds records of type 7 with
sub-type 7. These records describe multiple-response sets, which can safely be
ignored.
Here are my suggested changes, based on the foreign_0.8-15.tar.gz. (I'd be
happy to commit these via svn, but I assume that this is not allowed for
non-core developers.)
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> case 7: /* Multiple-response sets (later versions of
SPSS). */
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> R_int32 orig_layout_code;
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< if (hdr.layout_code == 2)
---
> if (hdr.layout_code == 2 || hdr.layout_code == 3)
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> orig_layout_code = hdr.layout_code;
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< if (hdr.layout_code != 2)
< lose ((_("%s: File layout code has unexpected value %d. Value
should be 2, in big-endian or little-endian format"),
< h->fn, hdr.layout_code));
---
> if (hdr.layout_code != 2 && hdr.layout_code != 3)
> lose ((_("%s: File layout code has unexpected value %d (or %d,
endian-reversed). Value should be 2 or 3, in big-endian or little-endian
format"),
> h->fn, orig_layout_code, hdr.layout_code));
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