[R] Read SAS data into R

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

John Kane wrote:
> Have a look at the Hmisc package:sas.get or
> sasxport.get.  In either case you need to have a
> working SAS installation on the same machine. 
> 
> Another way, although you lose label is simply to
> export the SAS data file as a csv or delim file and
> import it.

I'm also looking into running the SAS Viewer under wine on linux to read 
non-transport SAS files in a new Hmisc function.  But so far there is a 
problem - SAS in all its wisdom doesn't quote character string output 
when creating csv files with the Viewer, so you can't have commas in 
your character strings.  There is a tab delimiter option as long as you 
don't have tabs in the strings.  Amazing that SAS couldn't do better 
than that.

Frank

> 
> 
> --- AbouEl-Makarim Aboueissa
> <aaboueissa at usm.maine.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Dear ALL:
>>
>> Could you please let me know how to read SAS data
>> file into R.
>>
>> Thank you so much for your helps.
>>
>> Regards;
>>
>> Abou
>>
>>
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