[R] Using pakage foreign and to import SAS file

[Austin, Matt]

If sas isn't in the path, then you might have trouble with sas.get or
read.ssd.

Assuming you are using windows, go to the Start menu, select run and type
"sas".  If sas fires up it's in your path, if not then that is the reason.

--Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Rick Bilonick
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 8:22 PM
> To: Walter R. Paczkowski
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Using pakage foreign and to import SAS file
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 22:55 +0000, Walter R. Paczkowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm struggling with foreign to import a SAS file.  The 
> file, for lack of imagination, is d.sas7bdat and is in my 
> root directory (c:\) under Windows XP.  When I type
> > 
> > read.ssd("c:\\", "d")
> > 
> > which I think I'm suppose to enter, I get
> > 
> > SAS failed.  SAS program at 
> C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\Rtmp32758\file19621.sas 
> > The log file will be file19621.log in the current directory
> > NULL
> > Warning messages:
> > 1: "sas" not found 
> > 2: SAS return code was -1 in: read.ssd("c:\\", "d") 
> > 
> > I have SAS 9.1 running on my computer so SAS is there.  
> What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Walt
> > 
> > 
> I've not used read.ssd but I've had good results with sas.get 
> in Hmisc.
> 
> Rick B.
> 
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