From j.c.l.ooms at uu.nl  Mon Dec 15 12:37:15 2008
From: j.c.l.ooms at uu.nl (Jeroen Ooms)
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:37:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Rd] re  ad.spss (foreign) conflict with SPSS 17 files.
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Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> See the help page.   We haven't been told but it looks like the Debian 
> system is in a UTF-8 locale: reencode=FALSE is likely appropriate there.
> However, the posting guide does ask for the output of sessionInof() for a 
> good reason.
> 

Thank you very much; the Debian machine is indeed in a UTF-8 locale. All
suggested values for the reencode parameter (utf8,ascii,FALSE) therefore do
the trick. 




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[Rd] re ad.spss (foreign) conflict with SPSS 17 files.
Jeroen Ooms