[R] Calling SAS from R

[Guo-Hao Huang]

Did you read the help(system)?
You should use ``/'', not ''\'' for you path delimiter in R.

The following is a simple example for opening a pdf reader.
system(paste('"C:/Program Files/Foxit Software/Foxit Reader/Foxit 
Reader.exe"'), wait = FALSE)

It' also easy to modify the example shown in help(system).


with regards
                                                                             
                                                            Guo-Hao Huang

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From: "Yen Lee" <b88207001 at ntu.edu.tw>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 3:42 PM
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: [R] Calling SAS from R

> Thank you for your reply.
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> Because my R program is Chinese version,
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> I would try my best to translate and specify my question more precisely.
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> When I type
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> system('"c:\\Program Files\\SAS\\SAS
> 9.1\\sas.exe","c:\\entropy\\output7\\scale\\syntax.sas"')
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> The warning message is as follow,
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> In system("\"c:\\Program Files\\SAS\\SAS
> 9.1\\sas.exe\",\"c:\\entropy\\output7\\scale\\syntax.sas\"") :
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>  "c:\Program Files\SAS\SAS
> 9.1\sas.exe","c:\entropy\output7\scale\syntax.sas" is not be found
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> When I try
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> system('"c:\\Program Files\\SAS\\SAS
> 9.1\\sas.exe"','"c:\\entropy\\output7\\scale\\syntax.sas"')
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> The warring message is as follow,
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> The mistake is if (intern) flag <- 3L else { : The argument can not be
> interpreted as the logical value.
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> These commands also don't work outside R, but I also don't know how to
> modify.
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> I guess it's because I lose a command to tell SAS to read the file, but I
> don't know how to do this.
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> Hope it's clear enough.
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> Can anyone give me some help with this?
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> Thanks~
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> Yen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] 
> On
> Behalf Of Ben Bolker
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:32 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Calling SAS from R
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> Yen Lee <b88207001 <at> ntu.edu.tw> writes:
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>> I apologize if my sentence is not fluent to read.
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>> I am doing a simulation study and I need to execute SAS and
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>> read a SAS code in R.
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>> I try the following code but it doesn't work.
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>> system('"c:\\program files\\SAS\\SAS 9.1\\sas.exe" "c:\\syntax.sas"')
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>> can anyone give me some help with this?
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>  You need to tell us, as precisely as possible,
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> what "doesn't work" means.
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>  Did R produce warnings or error messages?  What were they?
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>  If you run the equivalent command (the same except for
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> single vs double backslashes and surrounding quotation marks)
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> "c:\program files\SAS\SAS 9.1\sas.exe" "c:\syntax.sas"
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>  outside of R (in a terminal window or from the "Run" box
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> in Windows), does it work?
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