[R] Revolution Analytics reading SAS datasets

[Matt Shotwell]

On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 10:44 -0800, David Smith wrote:
> The SAS import/export feature of Revolution R Enterprise 4.2 isn't
> open-source, so we can't release it in open-source Revolution R
> Community, or to CRAN as we do with the ParallelR packages (foreach,
> doMC, etc.).

Judging by the language of Dr. Nie's comments on the page linked below,
it seems unlikely this feature is the result of a licensing agreement
with SAS. Is that correct?

Matt

> It is, though, available for download free of charge to members of the
> academic community (as is all of Revolution Analytics' software) from
> http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/downloads/
> 
> # David Smith
> 
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Daniel Nordlund <djnordlund at frontier.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone heard whether Revolution Analytics is going to release this capability to the R community?
> >
> > http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110201005852/en/Revolution-Analytics-Unlocks-SAS-Data
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > Daniel Nordlund
> > Bothell, WA USA
> 
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