Correction to my earlier post. The SPSS file that I was accessing was not produced by SPSS 17.0. It was from 13.0, specifically:
SPSS DATA FILE MS Windows Release 13.0 spssio32.dll My R version info: _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 8.1 year 2008 month 12 day 22 svn rev 47281 language R version.string R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) ## The version of foreign used: Information on package 'foreign' Description: Package: foreign Priority: recommended Version: 0.8-30 Date: 2008-12-22 Title: Read Data Stored by Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Systat, dBase, ... Depends: R (>= 2.6.0), stats Imports: methods, utils Maintainer: R-core <r-c...@r-project.org> Author: R-core members, Saikat DebRoy <sai...@stat.wisc.edu>, Roger Bivand <roger.biv...@nhh.no> and others: see COPYRIGHTS file in the sources. Description: Functions for reading and writing data stored by statistical packages such as Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Systat, ..., and for reading and writing .dbf (dBase) files. LazyLoad: yes License: GPL (>= 2) Packaged: Mon Dec 22 08:06:26 2008; ripley Built: R 2.8.1; i386-pc-mingw32; 2008-12-23 10:21:24; windows I am trying to be diligent in reporting. Hope this helps. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/reading-SPSS-.sav-files-%28PR-13509%29-tp21889920p22006079.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel