[R] Import problem with S-Plus 7.0 dataset

[Brian Ripley]

>From ?read.S

     'read.S' can read the binary files produced in most recent
      versions of S-PLUS on either Windows (versions 3.x, 4.x, 2000) or
      Unix (version 3.x with 4 byte integers).  It automatically detects
      whether the file was produced on a big- or little-endian machine
      and adapts itself accordingly.
       'data.restore' can read a similar range of files produced by
      'data.dump', for newer versions of S-PLUS, those from
      'data.dump(....., oldStyle=TRUE)'.

Note: not S-PLUS 7.0.  You need to dump with 'data.dump(....., 
oldStyle=TRUE)' to have a chance of reading it.

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Inman, Brant A.   M.D. wrote:

>
> I am running R 2.3.1 on a Windows XP machine.  I am trying to import
> some data into R that is stored as an S-Plus 7.0 .sdd file.
>
> When I run the following command, I get this error:
>
>> library(foreign)
>> d <- read.S(file='H:\\Research\\data.sdd')
>
> Error in read.S(file = "H:\\Research\\data.sdd") :
>        not an S object
>
>
> The dataset is fairly large, roughly 13000 rows and 100 columns, but
> within S-Plus 7.0 it is stored as a normal dataframe (not a bd
> dataframe).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Brant Inman
>
>
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