> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Nicola Sturaro Sommacal > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:16 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Read SAS data > > Hi! > > I need to import in R some SAS dataset (sas7bdat). I found two functions to > do it: > "read.ssd" from the package "foreign" and "sas.get" from "Hmisc". > > df = read.ssd(libname = path2data, sectionnames = "sasSmallDataset", > tmpXport = path2data, tmpProgLoc = path2data, sascmd = path2sas) > sas.get(libraryName = path2data, member = "sasSmallDataset", formats = > FALSE, sasprog = path2sas, keep.log = TRUE) > > where path2data is the directory on which is contained the file sas, > sasSmallDataset.sas7bdat are the data and path2sas is the path to SAS > (C:/Programmi/SAS/SAS System/9.0/sas.exe). > > I obtain the following messages: > > from read.ssd: > SAS failed. SAS program at Z:/projects/QUANTIDE/import2R/.sas > The log file will be import2R.log in the current directory > Warning messages: > 1: In file.symlink(oldPath, linkPath) : > symlinks are not supported on this platform > 2: In read.ssd(libname = path2data, sectionnames = "sasSmallDataset", : > SAS return code was 2 > > from sas.get: > Error in if (status != 0) { : argument is of length zero > > I have SAS 9.0 and R 2.10.1 running on Windows XP Pro. > > Can you help me to found a solution or can you provide an alternative way to > import SAS data directly from R? > > Thank you very much. > > -- > Nicola Sturaro Sommacal > Quantide srl > > http://www.quantide.com
Here is one work-around for sas.get on MS Windows platforms. http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/Rhelp10/2008-December/182573.html Here is another thread that you might find useful. http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e9/help/10/02/6248.html Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel J. Nordlund Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Planning, Performance, and Accountability Research and Data Analysis Division Olympia, WA 98504-5204 ______________________________________________ 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.
