[R] suggestions about import SAS results to R.

[David Winsemius]

On Jan 2, 2013, at 2:44 PM, Yuan, Rebecca wrote:

> Hello Ista,
> 
> Thanks for mention this package, however, it will not support big file, where I got the error message:
> 
> ----------------------
> Error in read.sas7bdat("C:/Documents and Settings/test.sas7bdat") : 
>  big endian files are not supported
> ----------------------

That does not mean that "big files" are not supported.

-- 
David.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rebecca
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ista Zahn [mailto:istazahn at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:25 PM
> To: Yuan, Rebecca
> Cc: R help; sas-l at listserv.uga.edu
> Subject: Re: [R] suggestions about import SAS results to R.
> 
> Hi Rebecca,
> 
> I've had success with the sas7bdat package ( http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sas7bdat/ )
> 
> Best,
> Ista
> 
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Yuan, Rebecca <rebecca.yuan at bankofamerica.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestions.
>> 
>> I tried to import data from sas to R using foreign package. In the 
>> first step, I tried to use read.ssd() to convert the sas file 
>> sales.sas7bdat to SAS Transport formats. But I got an error message as
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>> source("testss.r")
>> Error in file.symlink(oldPath, linkPath) :
>>  symbolic links are not supported on this version of Windows
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> While in testss.r,
>> 
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> require(foreign)
>> rm(list=ls())
>> sashome <- "C:/Program Files/SAS/SASFoundation/9.2/"
>> checkfile <- read.ssd("C:/Documents and Settings/test","sales",sascmd 
>> = file.path(sashome, "sas.exe"))
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> I am using windows xp and R 2.15.2.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Rebecca
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mehmet.suzen at gmail.com [mailto:mehmet.suzen at gmail.com] On Behalf 
>> Of Suzen, Mehmet
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:14 PM
>> To: David Winsemius
>> Cc: Yuan, Rebecca; R help; sas-l at listserv.uga.edu
>> Subject: Re: [R] suggestions about import SAS results to R.
>> 
>>> On Jan 2, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Yuan, Rebecca wrote:
>>>> I am wondering if there is an efficient way to read SAS data directly in R, or what would be a better connection between SAS and R if I need to use R to deal with data achieved from SAS?
>>>> 
>> 
>> You may try foreign and SASxport packages:
>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreign/index.html
>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SASxport/index.html
>> 
>> But I heard that there might be some issues with the newest SAS version but give it a try...
>> 
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> 


David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA