How to read a .sav SPSS file in in R?

r character-encoding statistics spss cp1252
Felipe Hoffa picture Felipe Hoffa · May 23, 2013 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

I've tried read.spps(), but I get an encoding error:

library(foreign)
read.spss('persona.sav')
#>re-encoding from CP1252

Error in iconv(names(rval), cp, "") : unsupported conversion from 'CP1252' to '' In addition: Warning message: In read.spss("persona.sav") : persona.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18 encountered in system file

Answer

Felipe Hoffa picture Felipe Hoffa · May 23, 2013

Try re-encoding it as a utf-8 file:

 library(foreign)
 read.spss('persona.sav', reencode='utf-8')

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