From admin at biostatistic.de  Wed Oct 12 18:17:49 2005
From: admin at biostatistic.de (Knut Krueger)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:17:49 +0200
Subject: [Rd] SPSS I/O dll  was:  8 char labels in read.spss
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Thomas Lumley schrieb:

>Yes, but it can't be incorporated in the  "foreign" package, which has a 
>GPL license, and in any case wouldn't work off Windows.  It's not clear 
>that it would be much easier than using the PSPP code in any case.
>
>  
>
Seems that it is easier to save as Excel files and using read.xls and if 
active pearl is not available open Excel and save as .csv file ...

or using 8 character variable identifier

Knut



[Rd] SPSS I/O dll was: 8 char labels in read.spss
Knut Krueger