On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > here's an (alleged) SPSS file downloaded from Eurostat which won't be > imported into gretl (TIME field has invalid length or somesuch is the > error). > > I have no idea whether that's a gretl import bug or the file is not > according to spec. Maybe somebody out there has SPSS and can tell. It may be the big endianness of the file that's a problem (or possibly the fact that it was created using pspp rather than SPSS). I'll see what I can find out.

En 11/12/2013 22:26, Cottrell, Allin escribiu: > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Cottrell, Allin <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; > wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net&gt; wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> here's an (alleged) SPSS file downloaded from Eurostat which won't be >>> imported into gretl (TIME field has invalid length or somesuch is the >>> error). >>> >>> I have no idea whether that's a gretl import bug or the file is not >>> according to spec. Maybe somebody out there has SPSS and can tell. >> It may be the big endianness of the file that's a problem (or >> possibly the >> fact that it was created using pspp rather than SPSS). I'll see what >> I can >> find out. > There was a bug in the facility for handling big-endian SPSS files on > little-endian systems. That's now fixed in CVS. However, this file is > quite > strange and arguably mal-formed. I opened it in pspp (I don't have > SPSS) and it looked just as strange there as in gretl. I have SPSS and Allin is right. SPSS reads 380 rows with strange data. As you can see in image attached, the variables 'SEX' and 'AGE' always have the same codes, and 'value' has strange codes when there's no data.