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Is there a document available that gives a clear description of the layout of data in a version 2 .RDA file. I have a free program (http://www.vsn-intl.com/genstat/downloads/datald.htm) (Windows/Linux/Sun MOTIF exes available) that reads and writes a wide range of file formats, and have been requested by my users to add R to this. It already does S+. Regards, David _________________________________________________________ Dr David Baird, Biometrician EMail: David.Baird a...

I would like to announce that my DataLoad utility which can be found at: http://www.vsn-intl.com/genstat/downloads/datald.htm has been updated to support R data.frames. DataLoad reads a large variety of data formats (listed on the web page) and can convert these to ASCII or XDR data.frames. Only the Windows and Linux versions are up to date due to the fact that I no longer has access to a Unix system (the Sparc/Motif...

I am trying to import a permanent SAS data set using read.ssd in the foreign library. I get the following error: > list.files("C:/temp") [1] "newdat1.sas7bdat" "snpm1.sas7bdat" "test1.sas" > library(foreign) > newdat1 <- read.ssd("C:/temp","newdat1") SAS failed. SAS program at

Is there any documentation on what kind of SPSS file can and cannot be read by read.spss? Alternatively, how can one modify or "clean" an SPSS file to make it readable by read.spss? What properties must a *.sav file before read.spss can read it? The file in this example is 270KB, with 5 rows and 173 columns. I have no trouble reading larger files with read.spss, so it's not