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melff / memisc

Tools for Managing Survey Data, Creating Tables of Estimates and Data Summaries
https://melff.github.io/memisc
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unable to read spss #55

Closed vgeo999 closed 3 years ago

vgeo999 commented 3 years ago

Hi there, for five years I am using memisc in my standard projects but only recently my script stopped working. I have no clue, whether it was a Microsoft update or R update or maybe even memisc update, but every time I try to read in SPSS files into R using spss.file() or spss.system.file() I only get the error:

Error in sprintf("File character set is '%s'.", encoding) : object 'encoding' not found

For some reason, I have no problem reading the same SPSS file with read.spss() from foreign package, but since I am using other functionality from memisc as well, I don't want to use foreign but rather use my previous script. So far, I am unable to even start my workflow and cannot figure out why. Do you have any idea or suggestion?

Thank you very much and greetings from germany Liz

melff commented 3 years ago

That is definitly a bug. It appears to have been created by changes made in May last year. This should be fixed in https://github.com/melff/memisc/commit/c74e620b0bdda60ad5f58f56bbbaafdd4e5fdae8.

Can you please check with release 0.99.30.1?