[R] Invoking SAS in order to use sas.get

Frank E Harrell Jr f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Wed Jul 5 20:24:10 CEST 2006


Hamilton, Cody wrote:
> Sas.get is a function available from the Hmisc library.  I am using
> Windows (sorry for not mentioning that).

Search for the file sas.exe to find its full path name.  Put that path 
in your Windows system path.  Or specify it in one of the sas.get 
arguments.  The first way is recommended though.

Frank

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 12:35 PM
> To: Hamilton, Cody
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Invoking SAS in order to use sas.get
> 
> Hamilton, Cody wrote:
> 
>>I am trying to use the sas.get function to bring a SAS dataset into R.
>>After calling the sas.get function I got an error message stating that
>>'sas' is not a recognized internal or external command, etc.  I am
>>guessing that I need to specify the internal command to invoke SAS in
>>the sasprog option for the sas.get function, but I don't know how to
>>determine what that command might be.  Any thoughts would be
>>appreciated.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> What is sas.get()?
> If you are talking about read.ssd() in package "foreign", you have to
> specify the path to the sas executable. If you are on Windows (your mail
> 
> header suggests, but you have not told it), this might begin with
> "c:/Program files/........." unless you have sas in your PATH already.
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
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