[R] Help with sas.get

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Wensui Liu wrote:
> Jorge,
> 
> My understanding about sas.get is that it actually runs SAS in the
> backend, output the SAS data, and then import it into R again.

He has SAS running locally.
> 
> It might be better to convert SAS to csv format and read it into R.

For that, the Hmisc package's sasxport.get(..., method='csv'...) can help.

Frank

> 
> On 8/2/05, Jorge Sirgo <JSirgo at navigantconsulting.com> wrote:
> 
>>I am running R 2.0.1 on Windows trying to import a SAS dataset into R
>>using sas.get.
>>
>>It is a small SAS dataset, but when I write the command, the SAS window
>>opens but never appears to complete.  Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>>Here is an example of my command:
>>
>>temp <- sas.get("J:/blah","name")
>>
>>Jorge
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