The problem is the limit of 8 characters long on variable
names.[in read.spss??????]
I just created a file in SPSS 17 and saved it in standard format (.sav) The
file had four unique variable NAMES which were much longer than 8 characters
(although not 64). I entered two rows of data and saved the file again.
The "variable view" in SPSS looked like the following for the 4 variables I
created. (unique in the first postition after the first 9)
a12345678901234567890987654321098765432011111111111111 Numeric 8 2
a1234567890 None None 14 Right Scale
a1234567899123456789098765432109876543201 Date 9 0 b1234567890 None None 14
Right Scale
a1234567898123456789098765432109876543201 String 8 0 c1234567890 None None
14 Left Nominal
a1234567897123456789098765432109876543201 Numeric 8 2 d1234567890 None None
14 Right Scale
I now started R and used read.spss() from the foreign package using the
following code" The data frame I read in seemed to reflect the original
file with respect to column names:
library(foreign)
c=read.spss(file.choose(),to.data.frame=TRUE)
c
a12345678901234567890987654321098765432011111111111111
a1234567899123456789098765432109876543201
a1234567898123456789098765432109876543201
1 33.3
13452825600 a cat
2 22.2
13463280000 dog
a1234567897123456789098765432109876543201
1 32165
2 321654987
It appears these long variable names read in just fine. Thus, I would ask
caveman whether the problem is really an R problem at all, or is it a
problem with PSPP writing (in which case this would be the wrong list to be
discussing it on)?
R
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