Thanks for the helpful comments from others. The KNOWNHOST variable lists the types of file that are known to work with the read.sas7bdat function. It's likely that most files written on Windows platforms will work, even if not listed in KNOWNHOST. If you're feeling experimental, you might just comment the lines that test against the KNOWNHOST list.
Unfortunately, it appears that the file formatting depends on the system where is was originally written. The hypothesis is that sas7bdat files were originally no more than a memory dump of a C structure, or similar. Because C structures may be laid out differently by different compilers (i.e., on different platforms), this may have led to the difficulty apparent here. Regards, Matt ______________________________________________ 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.
