Missing variable type in sav files

[dgromer]

When writing a sav file using

data <- data.frame(Var = c(1, 2, 3))
haven::write_sav(data, "numeric_haven.sav")

in the resulting file, the variable does not have any type (should be numeric). Maybe the reason is me using a German version of SPSS, that expects "," as decimal separator instead of "."?

Here's the file written with haven:
https://github.com/dgromer/misc/blob/master/numeric_haven.sav

and how it should look like (created with SPSS):
https://github.com/dgromer/misc/blob/master/numeric_spss.sav

[evanmiller]

This issue should be fixed with this ReadStat commit:

WizardMac/ReadStat@9bc3ad1

[dgromer]

Yes, works for me when using the updated version of readstat_sav_write.c, thanks!