[R] importing SAS data

[Thomas W Blackwell]

Paul  -

I think you have to have an executable copy of SAS on the
same machine as R in order for this to work.  I've never
used it, but I remember a very similar question on the
list from just a few months ago.  Maybe there's some
description of this in the foreign package manual, or in
the help pages.

-  tom blackwell  -  u michigna medical school  -  ann arbor  -

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Paul Green wrote:

> I am trying to import a permanent SAS data
> set using read.ssd in the foreign library. I get
> the following error:
>
>  > list.files("C:/temp")
> [1] "newdat1.sas7bdat" "snpm1.sas7bdat"   "test1.sas"
>  > library(foreign)
>  > newdat1 <- read.ssd("C:/temp","newdat1")
> SAS failed.  SAS program at
> C:\DOCUME~1\paul\LOCALS~1\Temp\Rtmp21143\file30218.sas
> a log and other error products should be in the vicinity
> Warning messages:
> 1: sas not found
> 2: ls not found
> 3: SAS return code was -1 in: read.ssd("C:/temp", "newdat1")
>
> I can export the SAS data as a tab delimited file and then read
> it into R with read.delim, but I have many SAS files I need to
> look at. Does anyone have experience with this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul Green
>
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