Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 2/2/2009 8:46 AM, Kevin E. Thorpe wrote:
I tried to use write.foreign() to export to SAS this morning and got
an error.
When I looked at the code for writeForeignSAS() I saw this line:
dfn < -df
which I think should be
dfn <- df
So, I tried to run update.packages() to see if there was an updated
version and got the following result.
That bug was fixed a few weeks ago, but a new version has not been
released yet. You can get the latest source from svn:
https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/foreign
Thanks Duncan. I'll grab it.
> update.packages(c("foreign"))
Warning message:
In list.files(lib) : list.files: 'foreign' is not a readable directory
I ran the above command as root.
Is this because the foreign package is a core package and not a CRAN one?
It is a "recommended" package, which means it is on CRAN, but is also
included in binary distributions of R. But the reason you got that
error is because update.packages() doesn't take a package name as the
first arg, the first arg is lib.loc. You need to answer the interactive
questions if you don't want to update everything.
Oops, my bad. :)
Duncan Murdoch
My sessionInfo() is
R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
i686-pc-linux-gnu
locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_US;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US;LC_PAPER=en_US;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.8.0
and my version of foreign is 0.8-30
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Kevin E. Thorpe
Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
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