> -----Original Message----- > From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de] > Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 7:09 AM > To: Daniel Nordlund > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] SAS and RODBC > > > > On 14.02.2010 08:19, Daniel Nordlund wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Frank E Harrell Jr [mailto:f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu] > >> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 5:49 AM > >> To: Daniel Nordlund > >> Cc: r-help@r-project.org > >> Subject: Re: [R] SAS and RODBC > >> <<<snip>>>
> >> Daniel since you have SAS BASE installed why not use sas.get in the > >> Hmisc package and also get access to metadata such as variable labels > >> that ODBC does not handle? Besides providing better documentation, the > >> labels are very useful as axis labels in plotting, etc. > >> > >> Frank > >> > > > > Frank, > > > > I have used sas.get from Hmisc before, and I will continue to use it. I > appreciate the work that you and your colleagues have done with Hmisc and > the Design and rms packages. However, the sas.get function still appears > to be broken on Windows platforms (or Windows is broken :-). I know how > to fix the problem, but I am always looking for approaches where I don't > have to fix things. It may well be that the better documentation > provided by sas.get will prove to out weigh the inconvenience of having to > source an edited version of sas.get for my regular use. > > Daniel, > > if the function is broken and needs to be fixed, why don't you report > your findings (both the error with reproducible code) as well as your > bugfixes to the package maintainer? > > Best wishes, > Uwe > > > <<<snip>>> Uwe, The solution has been posted on R-help more than once, but you are right, I should have specifically emailed the maintainer of the package. So, I just did. Thanks for the prompt. Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA ______________________________________________ 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.
