I can't help troubleshoot the read.sas7bdat function, but if you have the
fixed-width data and a SAS importation script, the SAScii package might
help you work around this issue.  :)


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Fisher Dennis <fisher@plessthan.com> wrote:

> R 2.15.1
> OS 10.7
>
> Colleagues
>
> I have been an enthusiastic user of the sas7bdat package in R.  However,
> several recent sas7bdat files sent to me from different sources cannot be
> read by the package.  The error message is:
>         Error in read.sas7bdat(FILENAME) :
>   unknown host W32_7PRO please report bugs to sas7bdatRbugs@gmail.com
>
> I examined the file with a text editor and it contains
>         9.0301M1W32_7PRO
> in the second line.  An older file that works successfully with the
> package contains
>         9.0101M3XP_PRO
> in the same position.
>
> Is this causing the failure?  Is this something easy to fix?  For the
> moment, I am using StatTransfer to convert the files.  StatTransfer has no
> problem with the newer files suggesting that the problem might be trivial.
>
> I have contacted the package maintainer (matt.shotwell@vanderbilt.edu)
> twice without a response.
>
> Dennis
>
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