R help - Aug 2005 - Concerning reading of SAS-files

Hi!

I'm trying to start a credibility estimation study with a coule of data 
sets that are created for SAS. The data sets are saved as ".sas7bndx"
and
".sas7bdat".
I've tried reading them to R with the function 'read.xport' but this
returns the error message 'Error in lookup.xport(file) : unable to open 
file'.
Are there any other functions that one could use instead?

Thanks a lot to who ever can solve my problem!

Fredrik Thuring
Codan Insurance, Copenhagen

Best regards
Fredrik Thuring


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The first one is an index, not a data set. Anyway, just use SAS to
export the data sets in text format (CSV, tab-delimited etc). You can
then easily read those in R. (By the way, the help for read.xport says
that 'The file must be in SAS XPORT format.' Is .sas7bdat an XPORT
file? Hint: no.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fredrik Thuring [mailto:frt at Codan.dk] 
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 4:52 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Concerning reading of SAS-files
> 
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to start a credibility estimation study with a 
> coule of data 
> sets that are created for SAS. The data sets are saved as 
> ".sas7bndx" and 
> ".sas7bdat".
> I've tried reading them to R with the function 'read.xport' but
this
> returns the error message 'Error in lookup.xport(file) : 
> unable to open 
> file'.
> Are there any other functions that one could use instead?
> 
> Thanks a lot to who ever can solve my problem!
> 
> Fredrik Thuring
> Codan Insurance, Copenhagen
> 
> Best regards
> Fredrik Thuring
> 
> 
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