Ok. I can see everything now. Thanks to everyone for the help. Sending this
as text to try to solve the line wrap problem. This is my hotmail account so I
don't know if this will work.
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:41:57 +0100
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] read SAS file
>
> b g wrote:
>> Figured out the problem reading the file. Csv files must be ftp'd as ascii
>> and xpt files as binary. However, both strategies result in the first few
>> columns being omitted. I'd like to check which variables are on the file,
>> much like proc contents in SAS, but I can't find the command to do this in
>> the documentation. How is this done?> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:35:28 +0100>
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
>> r-help@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R] read SAS file>> b g wrote:>> I must
>> have this file in the wrong directory. I can see it and it's> spelled
>> correctly in my command (including case) but I get:>>>>> library(foreign)>
>> read.xport("cft2008R")>> Error in lookup.xport(file)>>> :> unable to open
>> file: 'No such file or directory'> There are several> subdirectories under
>> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.8.0\ . Should it be in one> of those?>> If it is a
>> .xpt file, then you likely need "cft2008R.xpt".>> --> O__
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> (please see if you can do something about the lack of line wrap.....)
>
> Did you try lookup.xport()?
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