Re: Problems with data import from LimeSurvey

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:04:36AM -0700, TerraP wrote:
> - I am conducting a survey using LimeSurvey, which has an "export to SPSS"
> option. LimeSurvey creates two files for SPSS - a .sps syntax file and a
> .dat data file. You then have to run the .sps file to import the data and
> create a .sav file PSPP can work with (if I understood this correctly).
> 
> - This doesn't work for me. I have downloaded both files to the same
> directory, but when I run the .sps I only get a long list of error messages
> (bad character, expecting command name, unknown command, expecting integer).

It is difficult to guess the problem without any specifics.  Can you
provide a sample .dat and .sps so that we can try it out for ourselves?