[R] SAS data

[Daniel Nordlund]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf
> Of Samuel Okoye
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 8:21 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] SAS data
> 
> Hello,
> 
>   I am trying to read the SAS file MyData.sa7bdat in R! This file is saved under
> D:\data! I therefore wrote
> 
>   > path <-"D:/SasData"
>   > sashome <- "C/Progra, Files/SAS Institute/9_1/SAS"
>   > sascmd <- file.path(sashome, "sas.exe")
>   > MyData <- read.ssd(path, "MyData", sascmd=sascmd)
> 
>   The results what I get:
> 
>   SAS failed.  SAS program at C:\DOCUME~1\Temp\RtmpcTlKtb\file4eb43288.sas
> The log file will be file4eb43288.log in the current directory
> NULL
> Warning message:
> SAS return code was 2 in: read.ssd(path, "MyData", sascmd = sascmd)
> 
>   Thank you in advance!
>   Sam

Sam,

If you actually tried to run the code as listed above, it is not surprising that it didn't work.   You wrote that the data was in D:/Data, but specified the libname reference as D:/SasData.   You specified the path to SAS as "C/Progra, Files/SAS Institute/9_1/SAS".  I can't believe that that is a valid path to SAS on any system.  I you write back to the list with actual code, location of data and sas.exe, and operating system (presumably MS Windows, but what version?), someone should be able to help.

Dan 

Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA  USA