[R] sas.get and Windows: WAS RE: SAS and RODBC

[Daniel Nordlund]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de]
> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 7:09 AM
> To: Daniel Nordlund
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] SAS and RODBC
> 
> 
> 
> On 14.02.2010 08:19, Daniel Nordlund wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Frank E Harrell Jr [mailto:f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu]
> >> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 5:49 AM
> >> To: Daniel Nordlund
> >> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> >> Subject: Re: [R] SAS and RODBC
> >>
<<<snip>>>

> >> Daniel since you have SAS BASE installed why not use sas.get in the
> >> Hmisc package and also get access to metadata such as variable labels
> >> that ODBC does not handle?  Besides providing better documentation, the
> >> labels are very useful as axis labels in plotting, etc.
> >>
> >> Frank
> >>
> >
> > Frank,
> >
> > I have used sas.get from Hmisc before, and I will continue to use it. I
> appreciate the work that you and your colleagues have done with Hmisc and
> the Design and rms packages.  However, the sas.get function still appears
> to be broken on Windows platforms (or Windows is broken :-).  I know how
> to fix the problem, but I am always looking for approaches where I don't
> have to fix things.   It may well be that the better documentation
> provided by sas.get will prove to out weigh the inconvenience of having to
> source an edited version of sas.get for my regular use.
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> if the function is broken and needs to be fixed, why don't you report
> your findings (both the error with reproducible code) as well as your
> bugfixes to the package maintainer?
> 
> Best wishes,
> Uwe
> 
> 
> 
<<<snip>>>

Uwe,

The solution has been posted on R-help more than once, but you are right, I should have specifically emailed the maintainer of the package.  So, I just did.  Thanks for the prompt.

Dan

Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA USA