At 22:44 02/01/2013, Yuan, Rebecca wrote:
Hello Ista,
Thanks for mention this package, however, it will not support big
file, where I got the error message:
Rebecca, have a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
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Error in read.sas7bdat("C:/Documents and Settings/test.sas7bdat") :
big endian files are not supported
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Cheers,
Rebecca
-----Original Message-----
From: Ista Zahn [mailto:istaz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:25 PM
To: Yuan, Rebecca
Cc: R help; sa...@listserv.uga.edu
Subject: Re: [R] suggestions about import SAS results to R.
Hi Rebecca,
I've had success with the sas7bdat package (
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sas7bdat/ )
Best,
Ista
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Yuan, Rebecca
<rebecca.y...@bankofamerica.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> I tried to import data from sas to R using foreign package. In the
> first step, I tried to use read.ssd() to convert the sas file
> sales.sas7bdat to SAS Transport formats. But I got an error message as
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> source("testss.r")
> Error in file.symlink(oldPath, linkPath) :
> symbolic links are not supported on this version of Windows
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> While in testss.r,
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> require(foreign)
> rm(list=ls())
> sashome <- "C:/Program Files/SAS/SASFoundation/9.2/"
> checkfile <- read.ssd("C:/Documents and Settings/test","sales",sascmd
> = file.path(sashome, "sas.exe"))
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I am using windows xp and R 2.15.2.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rebecca
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mehmet.su...@gmail.com [mailto:mehmet.su...@gmail.com] On Behalf
> Of Suzen, Mehmet
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:14 PM
> To: David Winsemius
> Cc: Yuan, Rebecca; R help; sa...@listserv.uga.edu
> Subject: Re: [R] suggestions about import SAS results to R.
>
>> On Jan 2, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Yuan, Rebecca wrote:
>>> I am wondering if there is an efficient way to read SAS data
directly in R, or what would be a better connection between SAS and
R if I need to use R to deal with data achieved from SAS?
>>>
>
> You may try foreign and SASxport packages:
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreign/index.html
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SASxport/index.html
>
> But I heard that there might be some issues with the newest SAS
version but give it a try...
>
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Michael Dewey
i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk
http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk/home.html
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