[R] importing SAS data

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

On 29 Oct 2003 21:10:02 +0100
Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:

> "Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at myway.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Seems that it only does PC SAS 6.03-12. Rather curious, BTW, to see
> software claiming
> 
> Dataload.UNI - Unix Motif version of Dataload.exe
> 
> and then
> 
> DATALOAD.UNI: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
> 
> as if no other Unix than Sun Solaris existed. Also, the program is in
> the public domain but the source is not included. Does anyone know
> what the author's long-term plans are with this? (It's a GenStat
> complimentary item, so GenStat non-users obviously has little say in
> the matter.)
> 
> -- 
>    O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3  

The file dataload is a Linux executable.  But my e-mail to the author asking about the ability to enhance the software to read multiple-dataset SAS transport files bounced.

Frank

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Frank E Harrell Jr    Professor and Chair            School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics    Vanderbilt University