David
Thanks for suggesting this. Three issues of note:
1. I too work on a Mac. When I downloaded the last archived version (which
has a .gz extension), OS X automatically unzipped the file and removed the .gz
extension. I was able to gzip the file so that I could execute your exact
command. However, I am curious whether you were able to download without OS X
unzipping it.
2. When I executed your exact command, I received one warning message:
SASxport.c:695:10: warning: unused variable 'dbl' [-Wunused-variable]
I presume that this can be ignored. Am I correct?
3. Did you actually run the write.xport command? I did so and it failed on a
number of files (but worked on others). Failures yielded the following error:
Error in nchar(var) : invalid multibyte string 3157
I traced the problem in this instance to the following text:
DIARRH¸æéñåºA
Other than editing the object to remove errant text, is there some general way
to prevent this error?
Dennis
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> On Sep 25, 2015, at 1:00 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I think it might be even simpler at least for now. The error checking done by
> CRAN can be more rigorous than that done when an installation is done
> locally. I don't see a report in the current package checks listing of what
> error was identified, but experimentation is always an option. When I
> download the last archived version and install from source I get no error on
> R 3.2.2 (Mac-SL fork):
>
> install.packages('~/Downloads/SASxport_1.5.0.tar.gz', repos = NULL ,
> type="source")
>
> Best;
> David.
>
>
>
> On Sep 25, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
>
>> Obtain the source package and fix it? Most errors are relatively minor
>> adjustments that just require reading the updated "Writing R Extensions"
>> document to figure out. You might be unlucky, but I think the odds are in
>> your favor.
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>> On September 25, 2015 7:25:33 AM PDT, 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 Fisher MD
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>>> Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784)
>>> Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784)
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