[Rd] FW: read.ssd

[BXC (Bendix Carstensen)]

Peter D told me the attachments went astray.
The files of interest are now in http://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/~bxc/R-ex/, as read.ssd7.r and for an excample SAS-program that illustrates the the features, see x-xpt.sas.
Bendix

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk] 
> Sent: 25. november 2008 08:47
> To: BXC (Bendix Carstensen)
> Subject: Re: [Rd] FW: read.ssd
> 
> BXC (Bendix Carstensen) wrote:
> > Did not seem to reach Saikat DebRoy, this might be the forum.
> 
> Ingen attachment. Din mailer fumler sikkert med Content-Type, 
> så mailing list filteret tror at det er noget binært.
> 
> 	-p
> 
> > Bendix
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: BXC (Bendix Carstensen)
> > Sent: 24. november 2008 15:00
> > To: 'saikat at stat.wisc.edu'; 'stvjc at channing.harvard.edu'
> > Subject: read.ssd
> > 
> > It's always annoyed me that that read.ssd crashed on 
> datasets with long variable names, but the other day a 
> collegue of  mine pointed out to me the SAS-option 
> validvarname=V6, which takes care of the problem by truncating names.
> > 
> > So here is a first go at it which works, but lets you guess 
> what variable the truncated names refer to (normally a minor 
> problem). The small changes in the code are flagged with 
> "####". Hope it makes it into read.ssd.
> > 
> > If you want to supply information on the long filename or 
> even restore them, the solution is to construct a proc 
> contents step and output the filenames along with their 
> labels, import this dataset too and use it to restore names. 
> This is considerably more longwinded and could presumably 
> wait. The little example SAS-program should give the details 
> of the SAS-code needed, but a lot of namefidgeting in R is 
> required afterward to make it work...
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Bendix
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