Re: Number of elements per case (0) is not between 1 and 134217727

[Ben Pfaff]

I fixed the problem.

In this case the problem was really more with ReadStat, the software
that wrote this file, but as I said I want PSPP to work with every file,
not just ones that fit the format perfectly.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:36:15AM +0200, ftr public wrote:
> Thank you, too. I understand that you think the problem is more on the side
> of PSPP and not caused by the ESS website generating files with errors .
> 
> - ftr
> 
> 
> On 24/07/2017 10:16, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >Thank you. I should be able to find and fix the problem later this week.
> >
> >On Jul 24, 2017 9:07 AM, "ftr public" <address@hidden
> ><mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> >
> >    Hello Be,
> >
> >    Thank for offering your help. The original file is a cumulated
> >    multi-wave multi-country survey from the European Social Survey.
> >    It was so large (200 MB) that I downloaded a reduced version of
> >    8.8 MB which - alas - creates the same error in PSPP:
> >
> >    GET
> >
> >    GET FILE="C:\Users\Toshiba\Downloads\ESS1-7e01 France.sav".
> >
> >    erreur: 'C:\Users\Toshiba\Downloads\ESS1-7e01 France.sav' près du
> >    segment 0xe188 :Le nombre de lignes de ce document (0) doit être
> >    supérieur à 0 et inférieur à 26843545.
> >
> >    Here is the sav file in question: https://we.tl/gigL21PtBp
> >
> >    In RStudio which imports sav files the file was loaded without
> >    difficulties.
> >
> >    In RKward which imports sav files the same file produced the
> >    following error message :
> >
> >    Warning in read.spss("C:/Users/Toshiba/Downloads/ESS1-7e01 France.sav",  
> > :
> >       C:/Users/Toshiba/Downloads/ESS1-7e01 France.sav: Number of elements 
> > per case (0) is not between 1 and 134217727
> >    Error in read.spss("C:/Users/Toshiba/Downloads/ESS1-7e01 France.sav",  :
> >       error reading system-file header
> >
> >
> >    Thanks,
> >    ftr
> >
> >    On 22/07/2017 23:35, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >>    I would be pleased to help fix this problem with PSPP. Are you
> >>    able to send a copy of the file that causes the problem? You can
> >>    send it privately to me, if necessary, and I will not share it
> >>    further.
> >>
> >>    On Jul 22, 2017 9:44 PM, "ftr public" <address@hidden
> >>    <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> >>
> >>         Hi,
> >>        I downloaded  a spss sav file from the official site of the
> >>        European Social Survey and was not able to open it, getting
> >>        the following error message:
> >>        C:/... /ESS1-7e01.sav: Number of elements per case (0) is not
> >>        between 1 and 134217727.
> >>        The same message appeared in  RKWard when using the R app
> >>        foreign. But JASP opened it without difficulties. So the file
> >>        can be read.
> >>
> >>        Any ideas how to open it in PSPP?
> >>        TIA
> >>        -ftr
> >>
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