[R] SAS Import with sas.get {Hmisc} - status 127 error

[Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Dominic Comtois
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:09 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] SAS Import with sas.get {Hmisc} - status 127 error
> 
> I'm trying to import a .sas7bdat dataset into R with sas.get. I'm using
> Win-7 and SAS 9.2. I have read the following post and did tweak the
> line
> (127, incidentally) of code.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-Problem-with-sas-get-function-in-
> Hmisc-td81
> 4367.html>
> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-Problem-with-sas-get-function-in-Hmisc-
> td814
> 367.html
> 
> 
> 
> However, I get the following error message:
> 
> 
> 
> > sas.get(libraryName="D:/Docs/tmp", member="SES", formats=F)
> 
> Error in sas.get(libraryName = "D:/Docs/tmp", member = "SES",  :
> 
>   SAS job failed with status 127
> 
> 
> 
> I suspected some problem related to formats or variable names, and
> reduced
> the data to a bare minimum, and still no success. I am thinking there
> is
> some log file somewhere that could help me figure out what is going on,
> but
> I don't know where to find it.
> 
> 
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 

You haven't given us a reproducible example, so there is not much we can do but speculate.  You also haven't told us the version of R that you are using.  Read the posting guide linked-to at the bottom of this email and provide the requested information.

However, to help you sort out what your problem might be, try using sas.get() to read a dataset that anyone with SAS has so that we can play along.  See if you can read in the class.sas7bdat dataset that resides in the SASHELP library (I can read it on a Win7 x64 box with SAS 9.2 and R-2.15.0RC, without any editing of the Hmisc code). If that doesn't succeed, then show us the full path to that file on your system, and the exact syntax of your call to sas.get() and any error messages.

Hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel J. Nordlund
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Planning, Performance, and Accountability
Research and Data Analysis Division
Olympia, WA 98504-5204