[R] Accessing defunct package

[Dennis Fisher]

David

Thanks for suggesting this.  Three issues of note:

1.  I too work on a Mac.  When I downloaded the last archived version (which has a .gz extension), OS X automatically unzipped the file and removed the .gz extension.  I was able to gzip the file so that I could execute your exact command.  However, I am curious whether you were able to download without OS X unzipping it.

2.  When I executed your exact command, I received one warning message:
	SASxport.c:695:10: warning: unused variable 'dbl' [-Wunused-variable]
I presume that this can be ignored.  Am I correct?

3.  Did you actually run the write.xport command?  I did so and it failed on a number of files (but worked on others).  Failures yielded the following error:
	Error in nchar(var) : invalid multibyte string 3157
I traced the problem in this instance to the following text:
	DIARRH¸æéñåºA
Other than editing the object to remove errant text, is there some general way to prevent this error?

Dennis

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> On Sep 25, 2015, at 1:00 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> I think it might be even simpler at least for now. The error checking done by CRAN can be more rigorous than that done when an installation is done locally. I don't see a report in the current package checks listing of what error was identified, but experimentation is always an option.  When I download the last archived version and install from source I get no error on R 3.2.2 (Mac-SL fork):
> 
> install.packages('~/Downloads/SASxport_1.5.0.tar.gz', repos = NULL , type="source")
> 
> Best;
> David.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 25, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> 
>> Obtain the source package and fix it? Most errors are relatively minor adjustments that just require reading the updated "Writing R Extensions" document to figure out. You might be unlucky, but I think the odds are in your favor.
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>> On September 25, 2015 7:25:33 AM PDT, Dennis Fisher <fisher at plessthan.com> wrote:
>>> R 3.2.0
>>> OS X
>>> 
>>> Colleagues,
>>> 
>>> In the past, I used a package:
>>> 	SASxport
>>> to output files to SAS’s XPT format.  This was useful because FDA
>>> requests that data be submitted in that format (even though they
>>> typically must reconvert to some other format before the data are
>>> used).
>>> 
>>> It appears that the package is no longer available at CRAN:
>>> 	Package ‘SASxport’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
>>> 	Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.
>>> 	Archived on 2015-06-09 as errors were not corrected despite reminders.
>>> 
>>> I have a previously-functioning version of the package on my computer. 
>>> When I attempt to load it with:
>>> 	require("SASxport", lib.loc=“/PATH/TOt/R-Packages")
>>> R responds:
>>> 	Loading required package: SASxport 
>>> 	Failed with error: ‘package ‘SASxport’ was built before R 3.0.0:
>>> please re-install it’ 
>>> 
>>> Other than reinstalling an old version of R (< 3.0.0), is there some
>>> way that I can use the package?
>>> 
>>> Dennis
>>> 
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