Hello Steve, sorry that I haven't written back earlier, I was ill and didn't check my mails.
Thank you very much for your reply. Thanks for the information about the duplicate levels. I also didn't find any errors in my data after getting the "unknown type warnings". Marion 2012/2/26 Steve Taylor <steve.tay...@aut.ac.nz> > suppressWarnings() will get rid of them for you. > > Note that in R a factor cannot have duplicate levels. Compare the results > with use.value.labels turned on or off, to see which you prefer. > > I also get the "unknown type" warnings, but I ignore them as my data seems > to arrive into R intact. > > Hope that helps. > > cheers, > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Marion Wenty > Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012 1:00a > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Reading spss files into R - warnings > > Hello people, > > I have got a question concerning reading spss files into R: > > I used the package foreign and the following command: > > read.spss("C:/Eigene Dateien/myspssfile.sav",to.data.frame=T) > > I have read two different files into R (several times) and always got the > following two warning messages: > > first file: > > Warnmeldungen:1: In `levels<-`(`*tmp*`, value = if (nl == nL) > as.character(labels) else paste(labels, : > doppelt auftretende Faktorstufen werden nicht mehr zulässig sein2: > In `levels<-`(`*tmp*`, value = if (nl == nL) as.character(labels) else > paste(labels, : > doppelt auftretende Faktorstufen werden nicht mehr zulässig sein3: > In `levels<-`(`*tmp*`, value = if (nl == nL) as.character(labels) else > paste(labels, : > doppelt auftretende Faktorstufen werden nicht mehr zulässig sein4: > In `levels<-`(`*tmp*`, value = if (nl == nL) as.character(labels) else > paste(labels, : > doppelt auftretende Faktorstufen werden nicht mehr zulässig sein5: > In `levels<-`(`*tmp*`, value = if (nl == nL) as.character(labels) else > paste(labels, : > doppelt auftretende Faktorstufen werden nicht mehr zulässig sein > > > second file: > > > Warnmeldungen: > > 1: > > Unerkannter Datensatztyp 7, Untertyp 14 in Systemdatei vorgefunden2: > > Unerkannter Datensatztyp 7, Untertyp 18 in Systemdatei vorgefunden > > > > I couldn't find out how to get rid of these. > > > Does anyone know how to do this? > > > Thank you very much in advance, > > > Marion > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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