[R] How to import SAS data in R?

[David Winsemius]

On Jul 6, 2012, at 1:39 PM, C W wrote:

> Quick question, what the memory size in R?
> I converted to CSV, but only 53300 of the 1,000,000 rows were read  
> in.  Did
> R run out of memory?  If so, is there a work around?

You probably have mismatched quotes. Consider using quote="". Also  
consider doing this:

table(count.fields(file-name)) # with a valid file name

That count.fields function is very useful since it accepts the same  
arguments as the read.tables functions, with defaults of:

  quote = "\"'", skip = 0, blank.lines.skip = TRUE, comment.char = "#")

-- 
David.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com 
> >wrote:
>
>> On 06/07/2012 1:11 PM, C W wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>> I have a large SAS data set, how do I get it read in R?
>>>
>>> The data is too big (about 400,000 rows by 100 columns) to be  
>>> saved as an
>>> Excel file.  How should I get it read in R?  Any packages?  I  
>>> don't seem
>>> to
>>> find any.
>>>
>>
>> You could write it out in some plain delimited format, e.g. CSV or
>> tab-delimited.  Watch out for special characters in strings that  
>> confuse R
>> when it reads it in (e.g. commas in unquoted CSV strings, quotes  
>> within
>> strings, etc.)
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
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David Winsemius, MD
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