[R] SPSS long variable names

[Orvalho Augusto]

No!

That is variable labels.

Caveman


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Robert  Baer <rbaer at atsu.edu> wrote:
>>> I am wondering if there is a patch for the SPSS reading
>>> code on the
>>> foreign package, in order to be able to read long variable
>>> names.
>>> Right now read.spss() just trunc the names to 8
>>> characters.
>
> This sequence seems to access the long filenames for me if I know what you
> are asking for:
>
> library('foreign')
> a<-read.spss('fil.sav')
> lnames <- attr(a,"variable.labels",exact=FALSE)
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> Rob
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