Santanu -
If you have sas installed on your computer, you may find using
the sas.get function of the Hmisc package useful.
If the only message that read.ssd produced was "Sas failed", it
would be difficult to figure out what went wrong. Usually the
location of the log file, which would explain the error more
thoroughly, is included in the error message.
- Phil Spector
Statistical Computing Facility
Department of Statistics
UC Berkeley
spec...@stat.berkeley.edu
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Santanu Pramanik wrote:
Hi all,
I have a large (approx. 1 GB) SAS dataset (test.sas7bdat) located in the
server (?R:/? directory). I have SAS 9.1 installed in my PC and I can read
the SAS dataset in SAS, under a windows environment, after assigning libname
in "R:\" directory.
Now I am trying to read the SAS dataset in R (R 2.12.0) using the read.ssd
function of the ?foreign? package, but I get an error message ?SAS failed?.
I believe I have specified the paths correctly (after reading some previous
posts I made sure that I do it right). Below is the small code:
sashome<- "C:/Program Files/SAS/SAS 9.1"
read.ssd(libname="R:/", sectionnames="test", sascmd=file.path(sashome,
"sas.exe"))
Please let me know where I am making the mistake. Is it because of the size
of the file or the location of the file (in server instead of local hard
drive)?
Thanks in advance,
Santanu
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Santanu Pramanik
Survey Statistician
NORC at the University of Chicago
Bethesda, MD
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