Hi, Gary, I have exchanged data between SAS and R all the time using SASxport package and found no problem at all. It might be worth for you to try.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Nelson, Gary (FWE) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry that I didn't provide enough information. > > I've been trying to import SAS xport files that contain multiple files > using package foreign's read.xport. I first attempted this back in 2005 > and had problems. Some of files that were present in the SAS xport file > weren't being created in R. I submitted my problem to the community: > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/57864.html > > and Dr. Dalgaard confirmed the issue: > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/57868.html > > >From what I've read, this problem was identified before 2005: > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/03a/0527.html > > After updating to version 2.6.1 recently, I decided to try it again, but > the problem still exists. I spent time trying to determine the issue > but I don't understand the IEEE coding. I did discover that the data > from the missing files are actually being included in one of the data > frames but the data were read incorrectly. > The XPORT files come from ftp://cusk.nmfs.noaa.gov/mrfss/intercept/ag/ > if anyone wants to try it. > I used the .xpt in "int82ag.zip" (all years except 1985,1988 and 1989 > are read incorrectly) and it appears they were created using SASV5XPT. > Once imported, look in data frame I3_19822 which should have only 3650 > records, but there are 76,187 records. > > > I am using version: > platform i386-pc-mingw32 > arch i386 > os mingw32 > system i386, mingw32 > status > major 2 > minor 6.1 > year 2007 > month 11 > day 26 > svn rev 43537 > language R > version.string R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26) > > And package foreign is version 0.8-23. > > I am wondering if anyone has created a fix that isn't available yet? > > > Thanks, > Gary Nelson. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- =============================== WenSui Liu ChoicePoint Precision Marketing Phone: 678-893-9457 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog : statcompute.spaces.live.com ______________________________________________ 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.
