[RkWard-devel] SPSS test files

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

On Wednesday 31 January 2007 22:50, SJR wrote:
> Thomas has created (is creating) a import plugin which will handle SPSS
> files. For those of you who don't have SPSS files (likely if you work on
> Linux only with R) here are some links to files which can be used for
> testing purposes:
>
> German:
> http://statmath.wu-wien.ac.at/data/spss/de/
>
> @ Thomas. I tried to find something about Umlauts? There isn't any option
> in read.spss {foreign} I guess. Right?
> http://statmath.wu-wien.ac.at/data/spss/de/comphomeneu.sav is a rather good
> example.

Oh dear. In fact it seems like an encoding option would be neededin read.spss. 
Note that it works ok, if you start RKWard with a latin1 locale:

LC_ALL=C rkward/rkward

But that doesn't help too much. I'll try to get some comments from the R 
folks.

Regards
Thomas
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