[R] importing SAS data

[Gabor Grothendieck]

There is a utility called dataload at:

   http://www.vsn-intl.com/genstat/downloads/datald.htm

that says it can convert SAS files (and numerous other
formats) to csv and other formats.  I have successfully 
used it to convert Excel xls files to csv although I don't 
have experience with its SAS capability.


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From: Paul Green <pgreen at umich.edu>
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Subject: [R] importing SAS data  

 
 
I am trying to import a permanent SAS data
set using read.ssd in the foreign library. I get
the following error:

> list.files("C:/temp")
[1] "newdat1.sas7bdat" "snpm1.sas7bdat" "test1.sas"
> library(foreign)
> newdat1 <- read.ssd("C:/temp","newdat1")
SAS failed. SAS program at 
C:\DOCUME~1\paul\LOCALS~1\Temp\Rtmp21143\file30218.sas
a log and other error products should be in the vicinity
Warning messages:
1: sas not found
2: ls not found
3: SAS return code was -1 in: read.ssd("C:/temp", "newdat1")

I can export the SAS data as a tab delimited file and then read
it into R with read.delim, but I have many SAS files I need to
look at. Does anyone have experience with this?

Thanks

Paul Green


 
 

  
 

        

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