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

[ftr public]

Hello Ben,

Thanks for your work. What will you do next ? Update ? I use PSPP in 
Windows, how can I get an update ?

What should I tell the ESS people who use ReadStat ? Or do you want to 
write directly to ESS ?

- ftr



On 30/07/2017 02:24, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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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