[R] suggestions about import SAS results to R.

Michael Dewey info at aghmed.fsnet.co.uk
Thu Jan 3 12:34:40 CET 2013


At 22:44 02/01/2013, Yuan, Rebecca wrote:
>Hello Ista,
>
>Thanks for mention this package, however, it will not support big 
>file, where I got the error message:

Rebecca, have a look at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

>----------------------
>Error in read.sas7bdat("C:/Documents and Settings/test.sas7bdat") :
>   big endian files are not supported
>----------------------
>
>Cheers,
>
>Rebecca
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ista Zahn [mailto:istazahn at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:25 PM
>To: Yuan, Rebecca
>Cc: R help; sas-l at listserv.uga.edu
>Subject: Re: [R] suggestions about import SAS results to R.
>
>Hi Rebecca,
>
>I've had success with the sas7bdat package ( 
>http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sas7bdat/ )
>
>Best,
>Ista
>
>On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Yuan, Rebecca 
><rebecca.yuan at bankofamerica.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions.
> >
> > I tried to import data from sas to R using foreign package. In the
> > first step, I tried to use read.ssd() to convert the sas file
> > sales.sas7bdat to SAS Transport formats. But I got an error message as
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >> source("testss.r")
> > Error in file.symlink(oldPath, linkPath) :
> >   symbolic links are not supported on this version of Windows
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > While in testss.r,
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > require(foreign)
> > rm(list=ls())
> > sashome <- "C:/Program Files/SAS/SASFoundation/9.2/"
> > checkfile <- read.ssd("C:/Documents and Settings/test","sales",sascmd
> > = file.path(sashome, "sas.exe"))
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I am using windows xp and R 2.15.2.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Rebecca
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mehmet.suzen at gmail.com [mailto:mehmet.suzen at gmail.com] On Behalf
> > Of Suzen, Mehmet
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:14 PM
> > To: David Winsemius
> > Cc: Yuan, Rebecca; R help; sas-l at listserv.uga.edu
> > Subject: Re: [R] suggestions about import SAS results to R.
> >
> >> On Jan 2, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Yuan, Rebecca wrote:
> >>> I am wondering if there is an efficient way to read SAS data 
> directly in R, or what would be a better connection between SAS and 
> R if I need to use R to deal with data achieved from SAS?
> >>>
> >
> > You may try foreign and SASxport packages:
> > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreign/index.html
> > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SASxport/index.html
> >
> > But I heard that there might be some issues with the newest SAS 
> version but give it a try...
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > This message, and any attachments, is for the intended...{{dropped:13}}

Michael Dewey
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