[R] foreign package: unable to read S-Plus objects

[Jan van der Laan]

You could try to see what stattransfer can make of it. They have a free 
version that imports only part of the data. You could use that to see if 
stattransfer would help and perhaps discover what format it is in.

HTH
Jsn


On 16-01-2023 23:22, Joseph Voelkel wrote:
> Dear foreign maintainers and others,
> 
> I am trying to import a number of S-Plus objects into R. The only way I see how to do this is by using the foreign package.
> 
> However, when I try to do this I receive an error message. A snippet of code and the error message follows:
> 
> read.S(file.path(Spath, "nrand"))
> Error in read.S(file.path(Spath, "nrand")) : not an S object
> 
> I no longer know the version of S-Plus in which these objects were created. I do know that I have printed documentation, dated July 2001, from S-Plus 6; and that all S-Plus objects were created in the 9/2004 -- 5/2005 range.
> 
> I am afraid that I simply have S-Plus objects that are not the S version 3 files that the foreign package can read, yes? But I am still hoping that it may be possible to read these in.
> 
> I am not attaching some sample S-Plus objects to this email, because I  believe they will be stripped away as binary files. However, a sample of these files may be found at
> 
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wFVa972ciP44Ob2YVWfqk8SGIodzAXPv?usp=sharing  (simdat is the largest file, at 469 KB)
> 
> Thank you for any assistance you may provide.
> 
> R 4.2.2
> Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.1455]
> foreign_0.8-83
> 
> 
> Joe Voelkel
> Professor Emeritus
> RIT
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