[R] Problem with sas.get function in Hmisc

[Jean Vidal]

The workaround you point seems to be the solution for the moment.
I not sure I will have time (and courage) to try to figure out where
the bug comes from. Hope a more literate R programmer than me is
willing to dive in...

Thank you for your answer.

2006/12/12, Agustin Calatroni <acalatro at rhoworld.com>:
> Jean, I saw your email to the R-help mailing list. I also notice the
> problem a few months back and email the maintainer (Charles Dupont) but
> never got a response. Since I used the function a lot and in order to
> avoid the error I use version 3.0-12 instead of updating the a newer
> version. To download the earlier version use the following site:
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.2/ If you figure out
> another way around the problem I will be interested in knowing the solution.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> -- Agustin Calatroni
>
> Agustin Calatroni wrote:
> > I been having the following problem when I updated the Hmisc package
> > from version 3.0-12 to version 3.1-1.
> >
> > Create dataset under SAS:
> > data a;
> >  do i = 1 to 100;
> >   x = rannor(0);
> >   output;
> >  end;
> > run;
> >
> > Hmisc version 3.0-12:
> > library(Hmisc)
> > sas.get('C:\\Documents and Settings\\novell\\My Documents\\SAS
> > Temp\\_TD3428','a')
> >
> > NO PROBLEM
> >
> > Hmisc version 3.1-1:
> > library(Hmisc)
> > sas.get('C:\\Documents and Settings\\novell\\My Documents\\SAS
> > Temp\\_TD3428','a')
> >
> > The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
> > Error in sas.get("C:\\Documents and Settings\\novell\\My Documents\\SAS
> > Temp\\_TD3428",  :
> >         SAS job failed with status 1
> > In addition: Warning message:
> > 'cmd' execution failed with error code 1 in: shell(cmd, wait = TRUE,
> > intern = output)
> >
> > R.Version()
> > $platform
> > [1] "i386-pc-mingw32"
> > $arch
> > [1] "i386"
> > $os
> > [1] "mingw32"
> > $system
> > [1] "i386, mingw32"
> > $status
> > [1] ""
> > $major
> > [1] "2"
> > $minor
> > [1] "3.1"
> > $year
> > [1] "2006"
> > $month
> > [1] "06"
> > $day
> > [1] "01"
> > $`svn rev`
> > [1] "38247"
> > $language
> > [1] "R"
> > $version.string
> > [1] "Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)"
> >
> > Thanks for Hmisc and Design packages, they are an invaluable resource.
> > Sorry if this is a stupid question and I missed something obvious.
> >
>
>