A colleague pointed out that the United States Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has adopted a transport format defined by SAS
Institute as a standard for electronic submissions of data. As a
result, this format has been openly documented.
The URL for the documentation on the format is
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote/ts140.html
Information on the FDA standards for Electronic submissions is given at
http://www.sas.com/software/industry/pht/fda/index.html
Has anyone written code to import data stored in this format into R?
Saikat DebRoy and I started reverse-engineering the format before our
colleague pointed out that it was openly documented. It was a rather
interesting exercise because floating point format is _not_ an IEEE
format, it is an old format with a base 16 exponent, no hidden bit,
etc. It takes me back to the days of punched cards, IBM mainframes,
JCL, ...
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Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:> A colleague pointed out that the United States Food and Drug > Administration (FDA) has adopted a transport format defined by SAS > Institute as a standard for electronic submissions of data. As a > result, this format has been openly documented. > > The URL for the documentation on the format is > http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote/ts140.html > > Information on the FDA standards for Electronic submissions is given at > http://www.sas.com/software/industry/pht/fda/index.html > > Has anyone written code to import data stored in this format into R?Well I've *thought* about doing it... And the SPSS format as well. And DB3. And... http://www.wotsit.org has tons of information on this sort of stuff. (Although on SAS, it's just the TS140 again.) It's mentioned on the Ideas list at developer.r-project.org (on a machine near you...), but perhaps some elaboration would be in order there. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes: > > > A colleague pointed out that the United States Food and Drug > > Administration (FDA) has adopted a transport format defined by SAS > > Institute as a standard for electronic submissions of data. As a > > result, this format has been openly documented.Along similar lines, what are the prospects for grabbing the SPSS code from PSPP? -thomas Thomas Lumley Assistant Professor, Biostatistics University of Washington, Seattle -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._