I am right now using Revolution R Enterprise 4.2. Could somebody show me how to import/export SAS datasets. Thanks.
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Abhijit Dasgupta, PhD <aikidasgu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm sure the legal ground is tricky. However, OpenOffice and LibreOffice and > KWord have been able to open the (proprietary) MS Word doc format for a > while now, and they are open source (and Libre Office might even be GPL'd), > so the algorithm is in fact "published" in Jeremy's sense, and has been for > several years. I figure the reason for keeping the SAS reading functionality > proprietary is Revolution's (perfectly legitimate) wish to make money by > separating their product from GNU R and adding features that would make > people want to buy rather than just download from CRAN. > > Within GNU R there are of course sas.get in the Hmisc package (which > requires SAS). It should also be quite easy to write a wrapper around > dsread, a command-line closed source product freely downloadable in a > limited form which will convert sas7bdat files to csv or tsv format (and SQL > if you pay). This latter path won't require SAS locally. > > I'm also sure that SAS has a way to export its datasets into R, since the > current version of IML Studio will in fact interact with R. > > > On 02/10/2011 03:11 PM, Jeremy Miles wrote: >> >> On 10 February 2011 12:01, Matt Shotwell<m...@biostatmatt.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 10:44 -0800, David Smith wrote: >>>> >>>> The SAS import/export feature of Revolution R Enterprise 4.2 isn't >>>> open-source, so we can't release it in open-source Revolution R >>>> Community, or to CRAN as we do with the ParallelR packages (foreach, >>>> doMC, etc.). >>> >>> Judging by the language of Dr. Nie's comments on the page linked below, >>> it seems unlikely this feature is the result of a licensing agreement >>> with SAS. Is that correct? >>> >> >> There was some discussion of this on the SAS email list. People who >> seem to know what they were talking about said that they would have >> had to reverse engineer it to decode the file format. It's slightly >> tricky legal ground - the file format can't be copyrighted but >> publishing the algorigthm might not be allowed. I guess if they >> release it as open source, that could be construed as publishing the >> algorithm. (SPSS and WPS both can open SAS files, and I'd be surprised >> if SAS licensed to them. [Esp WPS, who SAS are (or were) suing for >> all kinds of things in court in London.) >> >> Jeremy >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
