Hi, If it is your objective to get your data in an ffdf, I suggest you look at the SAS/SPSS/Stata code to see where each column is starting, next try out the LaF <http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/LaF/index.html> package as it allows you to read in large fixed width format files and once you have this up and running, you can use the laf_to_ffdf function at the ffbase <http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ffbase/index.html> package which works well with the LaF package and allows you import the flat file immediately into an ffdf for further transactions.
hope that helps, Jan -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Getting-information-encoded-in-a-SAS-SPSS-or-Stata-command-file-into-R-tp4649353p4649367.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
