[R] how to import from SPSS without shortening variable names

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Timo Stolz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> as I import '.sav' files from SPSS, the variable names are shortened to
> 8 uppercase characters:
>
> "sex_of_therapist" will become "SEX_OF_TH"
>
> Is there a way around this? How can I retrieve the full names?

Have you updated your 'foreign' package recently?  I think that was 
changed in 0.8-27, and 0.8-29 is current.

[sessionInfo(), which the posting guide asked you to paste in the output 
of, would have told us.]

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