[R] read.ssd() from foreign package

[peter dalgaard]

On Mar 6, 2011, at 09:34 , array chip wrote:

> Hi, I am encountering a confusing problem when I tried to use read.ssd to read 
> SAS datasets. For one SAS dataset "a.sas7bdat", it did not work; while for 
> another SAS dataset "b.sas7bdat" it worked:
> 
>> tmp<-read.ssd("C:\\SASdata", "a",sascmd="C:/Program 
>> Files/SAS/SASFoundation/9.2/sas.exe")
> SAS failed.  SAS program at 
> C:\DOCUME~1\yiz01\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpVjJa6m\file12384509.sas 
> 
> The log file will be file12384509.log in the current directory
> Warning message:
> In read.ssd("C:\\SASdata", "a", sascmd = "C:/Program 
> Files/SAS/SASFoundation/9.2/sas.exe") :
>  SAS return code was 1
> 
>> tmp<-read.ssd("C:\\SASdata", "b",sascmd="C:/Program 
>> Files/SAS/SASFoundation/9.2/sas.exe")
> 
> The attached log files are also attached.

Nope... Presumably, your mailer encoded them as non-text and the mailing list software scrubbed them.

Try inlining them. Not much we can do without an error message to go on. 

(I gather, by the way, that even SAS itself has trouble reading SAS files these days due to 32/64 bit issues. So my first question would be whether SAS can read both files.)


> File "file12384509.log" is for dataset 
> "a.sas7bdat" that does not work; while file "file1ad46e5d.log" is for dataset 
> "b.sas7bdat" that does work.
> 
> Can anyone suggest why one worked, the other did not?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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