How to read a .sav SPSS file in in R?

Question

I've tried read.spps(), but I get an encoding error:

library(foreign)
read.spss('persona.sav')
#>re-encoding from CP1252

Error in iconv(names(rval), cp, "") : unsupported conversion from 'CP1252' to '' In addition: Warning message: In read.spss("persona.sav") : persona.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18 encountered in system file

Answer 1

Try re-encoding it as a utf-8 file:

 library(foreign)
 read.spss('persona.sav', reencode='utf-8')

Answer 2

You can try adding 'to.data.frame = TRUE' into read.spss()

For instance:

df <- read.spss("data.sav", to.data.frame = TRUE)