> On Sep 25, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Dennis Fisher <fis...@plessthan.com> wrote:
>
> R 3.2.0
> OS X
>
> Colleagues,
>
> In the past, I used a package:
> SASxport
> to output files to SAS’s XPT format. This was useful because FDA requests
> that data be submitted in that format (even though they typically must
> reconvert to some other format before the data are used).
>
> It appears that the package is no longer available at CRAN:
> Package ‘SASxport’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
> Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.
> Archived on 2015-06-09 as errors were not corrected despite reminders.
>
> I have a previously-functioning version of the package on my computer. When
> I attempt to load it with:
> require("SASxport", lib.loc=“/PATH/TOt/R-Packages")
> R responds:
> Loading required package: SASxport
> Failed with error: ‘package ‘SASxport’ was built before R 3.0.0: please
> re-install it’
>
> Other than reinstalling an old version of R (< 3.0.0), is there some way that
> I can use the package?
>
> Dennis
>
Dennis,
A search would seem to suggest that Greg is no longer supporting the package.
Despite the XPORT format being openly documented (as opposed to the SAS7BDAT
format), I am not rapidly locating other free resources to *write* xport files,
while there are a number of them to *read* xport files.
Thus, one commercial (not free) conversion application that is independent of
SAS is StatTransfer, which may be worth your investment if you are doing this
quite a bit:
http://www.stattransfer.com
Regards,
Marc Schwartz
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