On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Finn Sand? wrote:
My real concern is that the read.spss() function will become obsolete.
Most of the data I have received in the last year have had those
problems (and increasingly so), now they have become so serious that the
import process fails all together.
Therefore I believe it is important to do something about


Well, we would be happy if someone did something about it. It still reads all the files it used to read (which includes all the SPSS files I have ever encountered in my work).

As has been pointed out several times, PSPP now has newer code to read SPSS files than the code in the foreign package, and that could be adapted.

        -thomas

Thomas Lumley                   Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
[EMAIL PROTECTED]       University of Washington, Seattle
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