R help - Aug 2004 - import data from splus

Dear Sir,
I am using R for the first time and I am looking for a function or a 
command that allows to import Splus data into R. I have already heard about 
functions called "readSdata" and readSfiles" in the
"Rstreams" package. I
did not find the last new version of this package on the CRAN and its old 
one did not work on R 1.8.0 (the vesrion that I am using).
Would you please mention me the updated package that I should install and 
possibly the suitable function to apply.

Thanks in adavance.
M.S.

Please read the `R Data Import/Export' Manual that ships with R.  You are
looking for package foreign.

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Mehrez Samaali wrote:
> I am using R for the first time and I am looking for a function or a 
> command that allows to import Splus data into R. I have already heard about
> functions called "readSdata" and readSfiles" in the
"Rstreams" package.
Those functions were made obselete by package foreign in April 2001.  
However did a first-time user hear about them?
> I did not find the last new version of this package on the CRAN
It's in the Archive.
> and its old one did not work on R 1.8.0 (the vesrion that I am using).
That's already rather old, but does have package foreign.
> Would you please mention me the updated package that I should install and 
> possibly the suitable function to apply.
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