From admin at biostatistic.de  Tue Oct 11 21:55:12 2005
From: admin at biostatistic.de (Knut Krueger)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:55:12 +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.  At the time, PSPP did not read long variable names.  It 
> now does, so it would be possible for someone update the SPSS-reading 
> code to handle long variable names.  This is much more complicated 
> than just changing a #define; the long variable names are stored in a 
> different part of the file.
>
> I don't expect anyone on R-core to get around to this any time soon. 
> If you want to try, the current PSPP code is at
>    http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp 

Thanks for your reply,
unfortunatlley the link is broken
and gnu.org is linking to the same page
http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html ...

Knut



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