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

[Hamilton, Cody]

Dan,

You are right - that was my problem.  Thank you so much for your help!

I had submitted the code

trial<-sas.get(library='Y:/Hamilton/Data',member='cody',
		sasprog='C:/Program Files/SAS Institute/SAS/V9/sas.exe')

instead of the correct code (with the double quotes)

trial<-sas.get(library='Y:/Hamilton/Data',member='cody',
		sasprog='"C:/Program Files/SAS
Institute/SAS/V9/sas.exe"')

Thank you to Uwe, Douglas, Andy, and Frank for their help as well.  (And
I will be sure to include the entire code next time.)

-Cody


-----Original Message-----
From: Nordlund, Dan (DSHS) [mailto:NordlDJ at dshs.wa.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 13:37 PM
To: Hamilton, Cody; Uwe Ligges
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [R] Invoking SAS in order to use sas.get

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-
> bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Hamilton, Cody
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:18 AM
> To: Uwe Ligges
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Invoking SAS in order to use sas.get
>
>
> Thanks for your response.  I specified the path to the SAS executable
> 'C:/Program Files/.../sas.exe', using the sasprog option in sas.get()
> and got a similar error message: C:/Program is not recognized as an
> internal or external command.  I would like to apologize in advance if
I
> am making a very foolish mistake here . . .
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 13:7 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:
> > Sas.get is a function available from the Hmisc library.  I am using
> > Windows (sorry for not mentioning that).
>
>
> Same as mentioned in my former mail also applies for sas.get() in
Hmisc.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> Cody Hamilton, Ph.D
> >>
> >
> >> Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement
> >>
> >
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Because your path has a space in it, i.e. "c:\Program Files\...",
Windows
requires quotes around the path\filename.  So, you need to include
double-quotes as part of your path specification.  Some thing like:

'"C:/Program Files/.../sas.exe"'

Hope this helps,

Dan


Daniel J. Nordlund
Research and Data Analysis
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Olympia, WA  98504-5204



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