[R] Invoking SAS in order to use sas.get

[Hamilton, Cody]

Sas.get is a function available from the Hmisc library.  I am using
Windows (sorry for not mentioning that).

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From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 12:35 PM
To: Hamilton, Cody
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Invoking SAS in order to use sas.get

Hamilton, Cody wrote:
> I am trying to use the sas.get function to bring a SAS dataset into R.
> After calling the sas.get function I got an error message stating that
> 'sas' is not a recognized internal or external command, etc.  I am
> guessing that I need to specify the internal command to invoke SAS in
> the sasprog option for the sas.get function, but I don't know how to
> determine what that command might be.  Any thoughts would be
> appreciated.
>
>

What is sas.get()?
If you are talking about read.ssd() in package "foreign", you have to
specify the path to the sas executable. If you are on Windows (your mail

header suggests, but you have not told it), this might begin with
"c:/Program files/........." unless you have sas in your PATH already.

Uwe Ligges



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