[R] SAS and R

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

It may be worth pointing out that the new read.ssd has to launch SAS to convert to xport format.  The sas.get philosophy is that if you are going to have to do that you might as well ask the sas session to dump the data to ASCII files, with optional restriction to a subset of the variables.   That way you can fetch all the SAS attributes such as variable labels, data/time info, etc.  -Frank

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:21:10 -0700 (PDT)
Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
> 
> > Try the sas.get function in the Hmisc library.  Hmisc is available for
> > Linux/Unix/MacOSX and will soon be updated for Windows.
> > http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/Hmisc.html
> 
> Similar functionality is available in the most recent version of the
> "foreign" package as well, with read.ssd()
> 
> 	-thomas
> 
> Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
> tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle
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