Problem importing string variables from SPSS (.sav)

[melff]

Problem importing string variables from SPSS (.sav)

[melff]

Thanks for reporting the bug and sorry that I did not come back to it earlier. I was a bit busy the last couple of weeks and also somewhat reluctant to react to anonymous requests.

Can you please send me a .sav file to troubleshoot? Thanks!

[siames3]

Hello,

First of all, thank you very much for memisc, it is a great tool.

Any news on this issue? It is happening to me too: string variables in the original SPSS file multiply into several dataset items:

$ q7_other : Nmnl. item w/ 2 labels for 0,1 num 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
$ q7_other_specify : Nmnl. item chr " "| truncated " "| truncated " "| truncated " "| truncated ...
$ q7_ot0 : Nmnl. item chr " "| truncated " "| truncated " "| truncated " "| truncated ...
$ q7_ot1 : Nmnl. item chr " "| truncated " "| truncated " "| truncated " "| truncated ...
$ q7_ot2 : Nmnl. item chr " "| truncated " "| truncated " "| truncated " "| truncated ...

Thank you very much!

[melff]

This is likely to be a bug. Could you send me an example .sav file? This would help identifying and fixing it. Thanks!

[melff]

Neither of the people who reported the bug provided me with example data. I created an SPSS data file (with PSPP) that somewhat corresponds to the data described above, but was not able to reproduce the problem described. Given that the symptoms only appear under specific OSes, I suspect that they are the effect of some pointer mishandling that was corrected in one of the recent releases.

Since I did not receive any responses to my requests for example data, I declare this issue closed.