We need to be able to reproduce this, so can you please make the file available? Please follow up to R-devel.
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, K. Elo wrote: > Dear all, > > I have tried to import a SPSS file in R, but always get the following > message: > --- cut here --- > Error in read.spss("spss-data.sav", : > error reading system-file header > In addition: Warning message: > In read.spss("spss-data.sav", : > spss-data.sav: Variable Y6B_A indicates variable label of invalid > length 256 > --- cut here --- > > SPSS (ver 14) has no problems with this file. read.spss() is not targetted at such a recent version of SPSS, and only allows variable labels of lengths 1...255. > Any ideas? > > Kind regards, > Kimmo > > --- > University of Turku, Finland > Department of Political Science > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.