Hi Michiko,<div><br></div><div>It looks like there is an error in the installation of Python and/or the SPSS Python Plugin. You should try to uninstall the SPSS Python Plugin and Python, then re-install Python from this file:</div>

<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/python-2.6.msi">http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/python-2.6.msi</a></div><div><br></div><div>Then download the SPSS Python Plugin (assuming you are using Windows 32-bit):</div>

<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/files/app/person/270002VCWN/file/b25b2e4f-6287-47f7-9936-fd652bb8debe">https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/files/app/person/270002VCWN/file/b25b2e4f-6287-47f7-9936-fd652bb8debe</a><br>

<br>Now, make sure to open the program using the &quot;Run as Administrator&quot; option in Windows in order to install everything correctly. Once you do this, try CEM again. If you still get errors, please let us know. </div>

<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>matt.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Michiko Otsuki Clutter <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:motsuki@mail.usf.edu" target="_blank">motsuki@mail.usf.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hello-</div><div> </div><div>I have been trying to install CEM for SPSS 19. I followed every installation step and I think it was successfully installed. But when I run the program, it gives me the error messages as below:<br>



GET<br>  FILE=&#39;E:\Users\Michiko\Desktop\lalonde.sav&#39;.</div><div>&gt;Warning.  Command name: GET FILE<br>&gt;SPSS Statistics data file &quot;E:\Users\Michiko\Desktop\lalonde.sav&quot; is written in a character encoding (ISO_8859-1:1987)<br>



&gt;incompatible with the current LOCALE setting.  It may not be readable.<br>&gt;Consider changing LOCALE or setting UNICODE on.  (DATA 1721)<br>DATASET NAME DataSet1 WINDOW=FRONT.<br>CEM TREATMENT=treated VARIABLES=age education black married nodegree re74 re75.</div>



<div>&gt;Error # 6887.  Command name: BEGIN PROGRAM<br>&gt;External program failed during initialization.<br>&gt;Execution of this command stops.<br>Additional error message: Load Python library failed.</div><div>&gt;Error # 6887.  Command name: BEGIN PROGRAM<br>



&gt;External program failed during initialization.<br>FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=age<br>  /ORDER=ANALYSIS.<br></div><div>I also followed the instuction for troubleshooting (<a href="http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cem-spss/pages/troubleshooting" target="_blank">http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cem-spss/pages/troubleshooting</a>) so I got no error message on R, so I should be okay on this one.. Can someone please help me figure out what I need to do to successfuly run CEM on SPSS?<br>



</div><div>Thank you!</div><div> </div><div>Michiko Clutter<br>-- <br><font face="&#39;trebuchet ms&#39;, sans-serif">Michiko Otsuki Clutter, PhD<br>Assistant Professor in Psychology<br>University of South Florida, St. Petersburg <br>



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