From admin at biostatistic.de  Tue Oct 11 21:58:21 2005
From: admin at biostatistic.de (Knut Krueger)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:58:21 +0200
Subject: [Rd] 8 char labels in read.spss
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Thomas Lumley schrieb:

> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Knut Krueger wrote:
>
>> I was wondering why it is possible to read long labels from the CVS
>> files but not from the SPSS files.
>
>
> The SPSS file formats are not documented, and so we rely on the code 
> from PSPP.

I found a definition of the SPSS files.
http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=spssdata
but they recommend to use the spss input/output dll to ensure upward 
compatbility

Regards Knut



[Rd] 8 char labels in read.spss
Knut Krueger