Read SPSS file into R

Question

I am trying to learn R and want to bring in an SPSS file, which I can open in SPSS.

I have tried using read.spss from foreign and s

Answer 1

In my case this warning was combined with a appearance of a new variable before first column of my data with values -100, 2, 2, 2, ..., a shift in the correspondence between labels and values and the deletion of the last variable. A solution that worked was (using SPSS) to create a new dump variable in the last column of the file, fill it with random values and execute the following code: (filename is the path to the sav file and in my case the original SPSS file had 62 columns, thus 63 with the additional dumb variable)

library(memisc)
data <- as.data.set(spss.system.file(filename))

copyofdata = data
for(i in 2:63){
  names(data)[i] <- names(copyofdata)[i-1]
}
data[[1]] <- NULL

newcopyofdata = data
for(i in 2:62){
  labels(data[[i]]) <- labels(newcopyofdata[[i-1]])
}
labels(data[[1]]) <- NULL

Hope the above code will help someone else.

Answer 2

The read.spss seems to be outdated a little bit, so I used package called memisc.

To get this to work do this:

install.packages("memisc")
data <- as.data.set(spss.system.file('yourfile.sav'))