Hi Rebecca, I've had success with the sas7bdat package ( http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sas7bdat/ )
Best, Ista On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Yuan, Rebecca <rebecca.y...@bankofamerica.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > Thanks for the suggestions. > > I tried to import data from sas to R using foreign package. In the first > step, I tried to use read.ssd() to convert the sas file sales.sas7bdat to SAS > Transport formats. But I got an error message as > --------------------------------------------------------------- >> source("testss.r") > Error in file.symlink(oldPath, linkPath) : > symbolic links are not supported on this version of Windows > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > While in testss.r, > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > require(foreign) > rm(list=ls()) > sashome <- "C:/Program Files/SAS/SASFoundation/9.2/" > checkfile <- read.ssd("C:/Documents and Settings/test","sales",sascmd = > file.path(sashome, "sas.exe")) > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > I am using windows xp and R 2.15.2. > > Thanks! > > Rebecca > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mehmet.su...@gmail.com [mailto:mehmet.su...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Suzen, Mehmet > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:14 PM > To: David Winsemius > Cc: Yuan, Rebecca; R help; sa...@listserv.uga.edu > Subject: Re: [R] suggestions about import SAS results to R. > >> On Jan 2, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Yuan, Rebecca wrote: >>> I am wondering if there is an efficient way to read SAS data directly in R, >>> or what would be a better connection between SAS and R if I need to use R >>> to deal with data achieved from SAS? >>> > > You may try foreign and SASxport packages: > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreign/index.html > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SASxport/index.html > > But I heard that there might be some issues with the newest SAS version but > give it a try... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message, and any attachments, is for the intended r...{{dropped:2}} > > ______________________________________________ > 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.