Colleagues
Frank Harrell wrote that you need to purchase Stat/Transfer", which I did many
years ago and continue to use.
But I dont understand why the sas7bdat package (or something equivalent)
cannot reverse engineer the SAS procedures so that R users can read sas7bdat
files as well as StatTransfer. I have been in contact with the maintainer,
Matt Shotwell, regarding bugs in the present version (0.4) and he wrote:
it tends to languish just one or two items from the top of my TODO... I
hope to get back to it soon.
I have also written to this bulletin board about the foreign package not being
able to process certain SAS XPT files (which StatTransfer handled without any
problem).
I am a strong advocate of R and I have arranged work-arounds (using
StatTransfer) in these cases. However, R users would benefit from the ability
of R to read any SAS file without intermediate software. I would offer to
participate in any efforts to accomplish this but I think that it is beyond my
capabilities.
Dennis
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:25:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Frank Harrell <f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu>
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Handlig large SAS file in R
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For that you need to purchase Stat/Transfer.
Frank
hans012 wrote
> Hey Guys
> I have a .sas7bdat file of 1.79gb that i want to read.
> I am using the .sas7bdat package to read the file and after i typed the
> command read.sas7bdat('filename.sas7bdat') it has been 3 hours with no
> result so far.
> Is there a way that i can see the progress of the read?
> Or is there another way to read the file with less computing time?
> I do not have access to SAS, the file was sent to me.
>
> Let me know what you guys think
> KR
> Hans
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