[R] Problem with sas.get function in Hmisc

[Jean Vidal]

Hello Hong,

Thanks a lot for the solution you sent. It works fine now.

2006/12/14, Hong Ooi <Hong.Ooi at iag.com.au>:
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> After digging around in the sas.get code, I found a change that seems to
> be causing the problem:
>
> old version:
>
>    ...
>    status <- sys(paste(sasprog, sasin, "-log", log.file),
>        output = FALSE)
>    ...
>
> new version:
>
>    ...
>    status <- sys(paste(shQuote(sasprog), shQuote(sasin), "-log",
>        shQuote(log.file)), output = FALSE)
>    ...
>
>
> For some reason, sys() bombs when given a command string with quotes in
> it. The string works fine when pasted into a command line window, so
> maybe it's a problem with the WinXP commmand interpreter? In any case,
> changing the sys() call to system() seems to fix the problem.
>
>    ...
>    status <- system(paste(shQuote(sasprog), shQuote(sasin), "-log",
>        shQuote(log.file)))
>    ...
>
>
> --
> Hong Ooi
> Senior Research Analyst, IAG Limited
> 388 George St, Sydney NSW 2000
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Jean Vidal
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 December 2006 8:02 PM
> To: acalatro at rhoworld.com
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Problem with sas.get function in Hmisc
>
> The workaround you point seems to be the solution for the moment.
> I not sure I will have time (and courage) to try to figure out where
> the bug comes from. Hope a more literate R programmer than me is
> willing to dive in...
>
> Thank you for your answer.
>
> 2006/12/12, Agustin Calatroni <acalatro at rhoworld.com>:
> > Jean, I saw your email to the R-help mailing list. I also notice the
> > problem a few months back and email the maintainer (Charles Dupont)
> but
> > never got a response. Since I used the function a lot and in order to
> > avoid the error I use version 3.0-12 instead of updating the a newer
> > version. To download the earlier version use the following site:
> > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.2/ If you figure out
> > another way around the problem I will be interested in knowing the
> solution.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> >
> > -- Agustin Calatroni
> >
> > Agustin Calatroni wrote:
> > > I been having the following problem when I updated the Hmisc package
> > > from version 3.0-12 to version 3.1-1.
> > >
> > > Create dataset under SAS:
> > > data a;
> > >  do i = 1 to 100;
> > >   x = rannor(0);
> > >   output;
> > >  end;
> > > run;
> > >
> > > Hmisc version 3.0-12:
> > > library(Hmisc)
> > > sas.get('C:\\Documents and Settings\\novell\\My Documents\\SAS
> > > Temp\\_TD3428','a')
> > >
> > > NO PROBLEM
> > >
> > > Hmisc version 3.1-1:
> > > library(Hmisc)
> > > sas.get('C:\\Documents and Settings\\novell\\My Documents\\SAS
> > > Temp\\_TD3428','a')
> > >
> > > The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
> > > Error in sas.get("C:\\Documents and Settings\\novell\\My
> Documents\\SAS
> > > Temp\\_TD3428",  :
> > >         SAS job failed with status 1
> > > In addition: Warning message:
> > > 'cmd' execution failed with error code 1 in: shell(cmd, wait = TRUE,
> > > intern = output)
> > >
> > > R.Version()
> > > $platform
> > > [1] "i386-pc-mingw32"
> > > $arch
> > > [1] "i386"
> > > $os
> > > [1] "mingw32"
> > > $system
> > > [1] "i386, mingw32"
> > > $status
> > > [1] ""
> > > $major
> > > [1] "2"
> > > $minor
> > > [1] "3.1"
> > > $year
> > > [1] "2006"
> > > $month
> > > [1] "06"
> > > $day
> > > [1] "01"
> > > $`svn rev`
> > > [1] "38247"
> > > $language
> > > [1] "R"
> > > $version.string
> > > [1] "Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)"
> > >
> > > Thanks for Hmisc and Design packages, they are an invaluable
> resource.
> > > Sorry if this is a stupid question and I missed something obvious.
> > >
> >
> >
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