R help - Mar 2008 - SAS data

Hello,
   
  I am trying to read the SAS file MyData.sa7bdat in R! This file is saved under
D:\data! I therefore wrote
   
  > path <-"D:/SasData"
  > sashome <- "C/Progra, Files/SAS Institute/9_1/SAS" 
  > sascmd <- file.path(sashome, "sas.exe")
  > MyData <- read.ssd(path, "MyData", sascmd=sascmd)
   
  The results what I get:
   
  SAS failed.  SAS program at C:\DOCUME~1\Temp\RtmpcTlKtb\file4eb43288.sas 
The log file will be file4eb43288.log in the current directory
NULL
Warning message:
SAS return code was 2 in: read.ssd(path, "MyData", sascmd = sascmd) 
   
  Thank you in advance!
  Sam

       
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Looks to me like you are trying to read sas.exe as your data rather
than MyData.sa7bdat....

Larry

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Samuel Okoye <samuoko at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I am trying to read the SAS file MyData.sa7bdat in R! This file is saved
under D:\data! I therefore wrote
>
>   > path <-"D:/SasData"
>   > sashome <- "C/Progra, Files/SAS Institute/9_1/SAS"
>   > sascmd <- file.path(sashome, "sas.exe")
>   > MyData <- read.ssd(path, "MyData", sascmd=sascmd)
>
>   The results what I get:
>
>   SAS failed.  SAS program at C:\DOCUME~1\Temp\RtmpcTlKtb\file4eb43288.sas
>  The log file will be file4eb43288.log in the current directory
>  NULL
>  Warning message:
>  SAS return code was 2 in: read.ssd(path, "MyData", sascmd =
sascmd)
>
>   Thank you in advance!
>   Sam
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at
r-project.org] On Behalf
> Of Samuel Okoye
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 8:21 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] SAS data
> 
> Hello,
> 
>   I am trying to read the SAS file MyData.sa7bdat in R! This file is saved
under
> D:\data! I therefore wrote
> 
>   > path <-"D:/SasData"
>   > sashome <- "C/Progra, Files/SAS Institute/9_1/SAS"
>   > sascmd <- file.path(sashome, "sas.exe")
>   > MyData <- read.ssd(path, "MyData", sascmd=sascmd)
> 
>   The results what I get:
> 
>   SAS failed.  SAS program at C:\DOCUME~1\Temp\RtmpcTlKtb\file4eb43288.sas
> The log file will be file4eb43288.log in the current directory
> NULL
> Warning message:
> SAS return code was 2 in: read.ssd(path, "MyData", sascmd =
sascmd)
> 
>   Thank you in advance!
>   Sam
Sam,

If you actually tried to run the code as listed above, it is not surprising that
it didn't work.   You wrote that the data was in D:/Data, but specified the
libname reference as D:/SasData.   You specified the path to SAS as
"C/Progra, Files/SAS Institute/9_1/SAS".  I can't believe that
that is a valid path to SAS on any system.  I you write back to the list with
actual code, location of data and sas.exe, and operating system (presumably MS
Windows, but what version?), someone should be able to help.

Dan 

Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA  USA