Thanks for some kind responses from the list.
Maybe I should present my data here a little bit to explain why I want to 
use SAS.

Below is part of my data set. 
First, I need to skip the first 9 lines which I can use skip=9 to do this.
Second, I need to read to rows of data. the first row starts with "M01" and
ends before "M02". The second row starts with "M02" to the end.

Thanks for all the helps. I will appreciate if someone can answer my
original question or help me read this data in R.

G08MX.PLS	YEAR X CALIBRATION

		AUTOMATED FILE GENERATION

TEST  01   50   50    7    0    1
    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1
1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1

    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1
1    1    1    1    1
GROUP 01
M01         20001   0.64822   0.03298  -1.25144   0.13812   0.16387
0.05688
   0.00000   0.00000
   0.00000   0.00000
M02         20002   1.02401   0.04124  -0.56511   0.04894   0.12076
0.02445
   0.00000   0.00000
   0.00000   0.00000


-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of vincent@7d4.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:58 AM
To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Call SAS from R

perhaps it would be easier to read directly
your datafile from R ?
read.table(...) is your friend, and quite easy to use.
type ?read.table under R.
hih

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