[R] Read sas7bdat

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You need to specify the path to SAS, not Sas viewer.  From the help page:

   sascmd: character string giving full path to SAS executable.

I don't think you have done that.

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Leandro Marino wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was reading e-mail about one doubt that you were when you read files
> .sas7bdat in R.
>
> Now, I am with the same problem. But I don´t know how can i do that. I have
> download de Sas Viewer and i am using this sintax in r:
>> read.ssd("X:\\users\\Anresc07","que0411.sas7bdat")
> SAS failed.  SAS program at
> C:\DOCUME~1\leandro\CONFIG~1\Temp\RtmpXR1Tid\file3d6c4ae1.sas
> The log file will be file3d6c4ae1.log in the current directory
> NULL
> Warning messages:
> 1: In system(paste(sascmd, tmpProg)) : "sas" não encontrado
> 2: In read.ssd("X:\\users\\Anresc07", "que0411.sas7bdat") :
>  SAS return code was -1
>>
> Do you know what i can do to solve that?
> Thanks a lot!
> Best regards,
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