title: How to read a .sav SPSS file in in R?
body: <p>I've tried <code>read.spps()</code>, but I get an encoding error:</p>
  <pre><code>library(foreign)
  read.spss('persona.sav')
  #&gt;re-encoding from CP1252
  </code></pre>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Error in iconv(names(rval), cp, &quot;&quot;) :
  unsupported conversion from 'CP1252' to ''
  In addition: Warning message:
  In read.spss(&quot;persona.sav&quot;) :
  persona.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 18 encountered in system file</p>
  </blockquote>