sorry, but it turned out that only the file was bigger than my patience (next time I will be more careful about the posting guide as well)
thanks for your time! Viktor 2008/5/10 Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > And how are we supposed to help without knowing your version of R, the > version of 'foreign', anything about your system (or you) and without access > to the file? > > Please do consult the posting guide and supply enough information that we > have a chance of helping you. > > On Sat, 10 May 2008, Viktor Nagy wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I've a .por file from 1998. I've tried to read it with >> >> library(foreign) >> read.spss("mhp_hu.por") >> >> at this point R simply stops working and my whole system is close to >> unusable >> >> I've found one related thread, but even there no real solution was given >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-February/125071.html > > That is not about .por files. > >> Unfortunately, I have no SPSS, and I can't convert it to txt or any >> other format. I was trying to use PSPP as well, but I could not >> understand how to open a file in it. :( >> >> Does any of you have an idea? >> >> Thanks, Viktor >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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.