[rkward-users] [rkward - Help] RE: Import spss bugfixes

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By: tfry

Hi,

about the mail problem: Perhaps you should open a ticket in the main sourceforge
request tracker about this. This does not appear to be a restriction of the
mailing list software, but an earlier filter while accepting (or rather rejecting)
the mail. (Though perhaps SF will tell you it's your mail provider's fault.
If it really does not conform to such RFCs, that might potentially cause problems
with other mail servers as well).

Regarding the issues:
1) Omitting the argument, when it is at its default value is slightly nicer,
in general. I'll need to check whether the default of use.value.labels has changed
(I certainly hope, not!), or whether it was a plain bug from the start.

2) Ouch. Yes of course, you're right.

I'll commit these changes as soon as I got around to checking 1).

Regarding value labels vs. levels:
I can see the problem. However, changing this would add complexity, some potential
for confusion (*), and move us further away from "the R way" of handling data.
So I'm not sure it's really worth it. Ideally, R itself would support value
labels for arbitrary values, but I don't think this is likely to happen
mid-term.

(*): Basically those "arbitrary value" labels would only work as expected inside
the data editor in RKWard. Making them work in all other contexts where you'd
expect value labels to be printed (or missing values to be treated) would be
next to impossible. So - at least until a convincing solution is found - I'd
like to rather enforce the limitation of labelling only consequtive positive
integers early on and consistently, instead of dealing with all the follow up
issues of trying to support "arbitrary value" labels. Keep the suggestions coming,
though.

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