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

[Ben Pfaff]

You can ask Harry Thijssen to make a binary for Windows based on
0.10.5-pre3, which I just released.

I don't think there should be any more problems for PSPP users who want
to read files produced by ReadStat, if they use the latest version of
PSPP.  Is there something else you'd like to know?

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 05:35:34PM +0200, ftr public wrote:
> 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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