Try read.S in package foreign. It was written back in the days of that
S-PLUS format.
On 16/02/2012 06:06, Patrick Connolly wrote:
I have a small file of the type that S-PLUS produced and stored in
.Data/ directories back in the days before we used R. I'm fairly sure
it would become a dataframe if read into Ver 3.4 of that august
predecessor to what we use now. (It was Solaris in case that makes
any difference.)
It does, because Solaris then would AFAIR have been on Sparc and
big-endian. But read.S should handle big-endian.
AFAIK, the format that S-PLUS uses changed after that, so a current
version would find it unreadable.
I believe more recent S-PLUS would be able to read it, too.
> If that is the case, I could be
searching for an S-language enthusiast/historian who has access to a
suitable version.
If you, gentle reader, or someone you know is such a person, I would
appreciate it if you could use something like write.table to produce a
text file such as a CSV or tab-delimitted.
If you are willing and able, or even better, if there's an easier way,
I'd be very interested to know about it.
TIA
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