[R] read.xport

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Nelson, Gary (FWE) wrote:
> I have the latest version of foreign, but it still doesn't work.  I
> quickly tried the Hmisc package, but the same issue arose.  I will delve
> into the Hmisc package further.

This is disappointing as we rely on read.xport quite a bit.

You can use the option with sasxport.get that reads csv files. The help 
file has a URL with a full howto.

Frank

> 
> Thanks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank E Harrell Jr [mailto:f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:46 AM
> To: bogdan romocea
> Cc: Nelson, Gary (FWE); R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] read.xport
> 
> 
> bogdan romocea wrote:
> 
>>How about avoiding SAS XPORT altogether and exporting everything in 
>>the simple, clean, non-proprietary, extremely reliable, 
>>platform-independent ... etc text format (CSV, tab delimited etc)?
> 
> 
> I hope the problem is fixed in the latest version of foreign (no version
> 
> info was given).  In case it's not, you may want to look at the 
> sasxport.get function in the Hmisc package.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
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>>>Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:31 AM
>>>To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>>Subject: [R] read.xport
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>>>
>>>I am trying to import data from a SAS XPORT file that
>>>contains 24 SAS files.
>>>When I use the "read.xport" procedure only about 16 data 
>>>frames (components)
>>>are created.  Any suggestions?
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