Hi,
have you looked at the third party SAS language compilers WPS ( 600 dollars
per desktop version http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/home/ ) and Carolina (
http://dullesopen.com/)  <http://dullesopen.com/>
<http://dullesopen.com/>

if you need just base SAS.



I think SAS institute existing products have been debating the approach for
R ( compared to SPSS) but that is a digression.

I am not sure on compatibility with sas.get , but a WPS to R bridge is
additionally available from www.minequest.com /Phil Rack

Regards,

Ajay


On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr <
f.harrell@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:

> Adrian Dusa wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am trying to import a SAS file into R (in fact I only need the value
>> labels from the formats file), using Hmisc package, but I get this error:
>>
>> my.sas <- sas.get("/home/adi/3", "fis1_sgg")
>> sh: sas: not found
>> Error in sas.get("/home/adi/3", "fis1_sgg") :
>>  SAS job failed with status 32512
>>
>> I read some past discussions and I get the impression that sas.get() needs
>> the full path to the SAS executable, but I don't have that because I am
>> using Linux.
>>
>> Is it possible to use sas.get() without having SAS installed?
>>
>
> Since sas.get is trying to execute sas the answer is a definite no unless
> you use the sas.get option to run SAS on another machine to produce the
> input ASCII files needed by sas.get.  Also investigate sasxport.get if you
> have SAS version 5 transport files to import.
> See also http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SASexportHowto
>
> As SAS never got it right in allowing for full metadata to be included in a
> SAS dataset, you often have to run PROC FORMAT CNTLOUT=... to convert format
> libraries to SAS datasets so that programs such as sasxport.get can assign
> value labels [if you have SAS installed, sas.get runs PROC CONTENTS for
> you.].  SPSS and Stata have always been ahead of SAS in this regard.
>
> Note that the excellent Stat/Transfer commercial product will convert from
> almost any SAS dataset format to compact R binary objects, including
> variable labels the way the Hmisc package handles them.  If you have another
> way to convert from SAS to Stata or SPSS, R is great at readying those
> formats.
>
> Frank
>
>
>> Or alternatively, is there another function to import the formats into R?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any hint,
>> Adrian
>>
>>
>
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>                     Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University
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