Hello Am Donnerstag, 3. August 2006 15.34 schrieb Thomas Lumley: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Thomas Kuster wrote: > > Hello > > > > Am Mittwoch, 2. August 2006 17.11 schrieb Thomas Lumley: ... > You haven't shown anything that indicates that the C code stopped reading. > More likely R just stops displaying when it gets to an illegal byte > sequence. You could use nchar() to count the bytes in the string to find > out.
If I change the translatable characters (overwrite the 0 between :#@'=" and ~000 with ÄÖÜäöü). I can read in the file an every ÄÖÜäöü ist a withspace: > daten <- read.spss("projets_umlaut.por") > levels(daten$PROJETX) [1] "Bg Stammzellenforschung" [2] "Bb ber eine neue Finanzordnung" [3] "Bb Neugestaltung des Finanzausgleichs" [4] " nderrung Bg EOG Mutterschafturlaub" [5] "EV Postdienste f r alle" [6] "Bb ber B rgerrechtserwerb 3. Generation" [7] "Bb ber erleichterte Einb rung 2. Generation" [8] "Bg Steuerpaket" . . . > levels(daten$PROJETX)[208] [1] "EV Gleiche Rechte f r Mann und Frau Gegenvorschlag" > charToRaw(levels(daten$PROJETX)[208]) [1] 45 56 20 47 6c 65 69 63 68 65 20 52 65 63 68 74 65 20 66 20 72 20 4d 61 6e [26] 6e 20 75 6e 64 20 46 72 61 75 20 47 65 67 65 6e 76 6f 72 73 63 68 6c 61 67 without change the table I get: > daten <- read.spss("projets.por") > charToRaw(levels(daten$PROJETX)[208]) [1] 45 56 20 47 6c 65 69 63 68 65 20 52 65 63 68 74 65 20 66 The SPSS file is from: http://voxit.sidos.ch/update.asp?lang=d -> Download der kumulierten Dateien Version 2.0 You must accept this: The Standardized Post-Vote Surveys: http://voxit.sidos.ch/agreement.asp?lang=e&menu=0 Thomas ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.