Otto Fajardo

cannot read correctly variable name

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When reading the attached file, there should be a variable name "BRANDAA_SUN_1", I get instead "BRANDAA". PSPP can read the variable name correctly. I think the file has been created...

Written dta file with version=15 not readable in Stata 17 Basic Edition

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If writing a dta file setting version as 15, when opening it in Stata 17, the user gets the error: ``` This .dta file format was created by Stata/MP and...

writing SPSS sav file with long strings changes the column names and values

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While doing some experiments I found the following strange thing: If I compile the program described below, where I write three variables, the first one string, the two last ones...

Unable to convert string to the requested encoding when reading sav files with long strings

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Hi, When reading a sav file that contains a long string (756 characters to be precise, with 755 the error does not show up) with an international character, Readstat gives...

long string variable split when reading in SPSS

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hi When writing a sav SPSS file with Readstat containing long string variables (long_readstat.sav), Readstat reads them correctly, however SPSS splits it (LongString2, "V2_A1", "V2_A2", "V2_A3"), this does not happen...

Compilation on Windows 32 bit not working

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Windows compilation fails for 32 bit: ``` windows: build\temp.win32-3.8\Release\pyreadr\libs\librdata\src\rdata_write.o:rdata_write.c:(.text+0x67a): undefined reference to `_mkgmtime32' ``` For now, raise an exception in setup.py if trying to compile for 32 bit, so that...

Support writing row names

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hi If I am not mistaken (please let me know if I am), the current writing API does not support writing row names to a dataframe. It would be nice...

When reading the following [file](https://github.com/christophM/interpretable-ml-book/blob/master/data/bike.RData) this error arises: ``` The file contains an unrecognized object ``` Trying to isolate the problem a bit, saving only the first column to a...

Unicode error coming from factors

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While trying to read [this](https://github.com/ofajardo/pyreadr/files/7711954/test8.RData.zip) apparently simple rdata file, the following error arises: ``` UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb1 in position 1: invalid start byte ``` The problem...

Add ability to specify text encoding or disable transcoding

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hi It was reported [here](https://github.com/ofajardo/pyreadr/issues/64) in pyreadr that trying to open [this file](https://www.dropbox.com/s/650m9kxkb8dzglw/tip2020.rda.zip?dl=0) raises the following error: ``` Unable to convert string to the requested encoding (invalid byte sequence) ```...