Re: [Rd] spss long labels

2008-07-16 Thread Martin Maechler
Hi Kurt, I have committed your patch and your new spss_long.sav example file, tested things and uploaded a new version of 'foreign', namely 0.8-27 to CRAN. I vaguely remember that other useRs have asked for long-label support in the past, so if you are (or know of) such a user, we'd be glad if yo

[Rd] spss long labels

2008-07-15 Thread Kurt Van Dijck
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:29:22AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Martin Maechler wrote: > > >Hi Kurt, > > > >>"KVD" == Kurt Van Dijck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:05:39 +0200 writes: > > > > KVD> Hi all, I got no feedback at all concerning t

Re: [Rd] spss long labels

2008-07-15 Thread Martin Maechler
Hi Kurt, > "KVD" == Kurt Van Dijck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:05:39 +0200 writes: KVD> Hi all, I got no feedback at all concerning the merge KVD> of this patch in the source tree. Am I supposed to do KVD> this myself? How should I do this (do I have subv

[Rd] spss long labels

2008-07-09 Thread Kurt Van Dijck
Hi all, I got no feedback at all concerning the merge of this patch in the source tree. Am I supposed to do this myself? How should I do this (do I have subversion commit access)? Is this patch acceptable at all? Is it being tested? I got some personal reactions on my post, proving there is gen

[Rd] spss long labels

2008-07-02 Thread Kurt Van Dijck
Hi, A frequently seen issue with importing SPSS data files, is that R does not import the 'long variable names'. I built a patch on the R-project's foreign module, in order to import the 'long variable names' from SPSS (record 7, subtype 13). To complete the job, I had to expand the "struct varia