[R] Using pakage foreign and to import SAS file

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It is highly unlikely that SAS is on the path, as it does not put itself 
there.

read.ssd () has a 'sascmd' argument to give the path to SAS.  This is 
explained  *with a functioning Windows example*, on the help page for 
read.ssd.

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Austin, Matt wrote:

> 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?

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