[R] Reading S-plus data in R

[Michael Dewey]

Did you do
library(foreign)
first?

On 26/02/2017 07:23, roslinazairimah zakaria wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> Thank you so much for your reply.
>
> However, I still got error message:
>
>> data.dump(oldStyle=TRUE)
> Error: could not find function "data.dump"
>> data.restore("C:/Users/FTSI/Desktop/2 ICGPA/1ACTIVITY.sdd")
> Error: could not find function "data.restore"
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:42 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:
>
>> The sdd file extension may mean that the file is in S+ 'data dump' format,
>> made by S+'s data.dump function and readable in S+ by its data.restore
>> function.
>> foreign::data.restore can read some such files in R, but I think it
>> may only read well
>> those with using the pre-1991 format made in more recent versions of
>> S+ with data.dump(old.style=TRUE).
>> Bill Dunlap
>> TIBCO Software
>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:58 PM, roslinazairimah zakaria
>> <roslinaump at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear r-users,
>>>
>>> I would like to read S-Plus data (.ssd) into R.  I tried this:
>>>
>>> library(foreign)
>>> read.S("C:/Users/FTSI/Desktop/2 ICGPA/1ACTIVITY.sdd")
>>>
>>> and got this message:
>>>
>>> read.S("C:/Users/FTSI/Desktop/2 ICGPA/1ACTIVITY.sdd")
>>> Error in read.S("C:/Users/FTSI/Desktop/2 ICGPA/1ACTIVITY.sdd") :
>>>   not an S object
>>>
>>> What is wrong with this?  Thank you so much for your help.
>>>
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