Timo Stolz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as I import '.sav' files from SPSS, the variable names are shortened to
> 8 uppercase characters:
>
> "sex_of_therapist" will become "SEX_OF_TH"
>
> Is there a way around this? How can I retrieve the full names?
>
>
Well as long as it didn't become sex_of_the_rapist...
This is actually changed in the most recent version of the foreign
package, which is contained in R 2.7.2RC:
> X <- read.spss("~/Desktop/Biobank_SPSS.sav", to.data.frame=TRUE)
Warning message:
In read.spss("~/Desktop/Biobank_SPSS.sav", to.data.frame = TRUE) :
~/Desktop/Biobank_SPSS.sav: File-indicated character representation
code (1252) looks like a Windows codepage
> names(X)
[1] "Pt_id" "Popul" "Age" "Sex" "SKScode"
[6] "Sys1" "Sys2" "Sys_pro" "Dia1" "Dia2"
[11] "Dia_pro" "MAP1" "MAP2" "MAP_pro" "MAP_p"
[16] "MAP_30_55" "Anaesthesia" "Efedrin" "Efedrin1" "Efedrin2"
[21] "Metaoxedrin" "Nr" "ACE1" "ACE2" "ACE_ID"
[26] "ACE3" "ACE4" "ADRA1A" "ADRA2A" "ADRB1_1"
[31] "ADRB1_2" "ADRB2_1" "ADRB2_2" "ADRB2_3" "ADRB2_4"
[36] "AGT_1" "AGT_2" "AGTR1" "GNB3" "AGTR2"
[41] "GNAS" "NOS3_1" "NOS3_2" "NOS3_3" "ADRB2_5"
[46] "ADRB2HA" "ADRB2HB" "ADRB2HP" "ADRB1HA" "ADRB1HB"
[51] "ADRB1HP" "AGTHA" "AGTHB" "AGTHP" "ACEHA"
[56] "ACEHB" "ACEHP" "Højde" "Vægt" "BMI"
[61] "BMIgroupA" "BMIgroupB" "BMIgroupC"
So try the prerelease or wait till Monday (and miss the opportunity to
have any bugs you find fixed before release).
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