[R] Reading sas7bdat files into R

[John Sorkin]

Try sas.get to read the library. You will need the Hmisc package.
Let me know if you have success.
John
John Sorkin
Chief Biostatistics and Informatics
Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine
Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
JSorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu 
-----Original Message-----
From: Sashi Challa <challa at ohsu.edu>
To: John Sorkin <jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu>
To: r-help at r-project.org <r-help at r-project.org>

Sent: 12/27/2010 7:58:22 PM
Subject: RE: [R] Reading sas7bdat files into R

Thanks for your reply John.

I guess you are correct, sasxport.get function is for files in SAS transfer format.

Do you know how I can convert the .sas7bdat file into SAS export file that I suppose will be in SAS transfer format? 

Thanks
Sashi

-----Original Message-----
From: John Sorkin [mailto:jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu] 
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 4:52 PM
To: Sashi Challa; r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Reading sas7bdat files into R

I can't say for sure as I have never used sasxport.get, but I believe that a SAS export file is not the same as a sas library. I believe you are trying to read a SAS library file with an R program that may have been written to read a SAS export file.
John
John Sorkin
Chief Biostatistics and Informatics
Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine
Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
JSorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu 
-----Original Message-----
From: Sashi Challa <challa at ohsu.edu>
To: r-help at r-project.org <r-help at r-project.org>

Sent: 12/27/2010 7:43:05 PM
Subject: [R] Reading sas7bdat files into R

Hi All,

I am trying to import a .sas7bdat file into R.

I tried using Hmisc package's sasxport.get() function.

temp <- sasxport.get("path\abcd.sas7bdat")

I get an error that says "Error in lookup.xport(file) : file not in SAS transfer format"

I am not familiar with SAS transfer format.

Could somebody please clarify what is it that I am missing,

Thanks for your time,

Sashi
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