From bates@stat.wisc.edu  Thu Dec 14 15:55:55 2000
From: bates@stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates)
Date: 14 Dec 2000 09:55:55 -0600
Subject: [Rd] An SPSS save file for testing
In-Reply-To: Douglas Bates's message of "12 Dec 2000 14:35:34 -0600"
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Douglas Bates <bates@cs.wisc.edu> writes:

> Saikat DebRoy is working on a revised "foreign" package (currently in
> the src/contrib/Devel area on CRAN) that will include the ability to
> read the SPSS save format.  Since we don't use SPSS we don't have easy
> access to a sample data set and have been using PSPP (see
> http://pspp.stat.wisc.edu/) to generate test data.  It would be more
> realistic to have a small, redistributable SPSS saved dataset if
> someone would be willing to contribute same.

Thanks to all those who volunteered to provide us with test data.  We
now have enough data sets for the tests.  The new foreign library has
been uploaded to CRAN.  If you use
 R CMD check foreign
it will run the specific tests in the test directory and check that it
can read the different formats.

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[Rd] An SPSS save file for testing
Douglas Bates