Hi, Gary,
I have exchanged data between SAS and R all the time using SASxport
package and found no problem at all.
It might be worth for you to try.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Nelson, Gary (FWE)
<Gary.Nelson at state.ma.us> wrote:> Hi All,
>
> Sorry that I didn't provide enough information.
>
> I've been trying to import SAS xport files that contain multiple files
> using package foreign's read.xport. I first attempted this back in
2005
> and had problems. Some of files that were present in the SAS xport file
> weren't being created in R. I submitted my problem to the community:
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/57864.html
>
> and Dr. Dalgaard confirmed the issue:
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/57868.html
>
> >From what I've read, this problem was identified before 2005:
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/03a/0527.html
>
> After updating to version 2.6.1 recently, I decided to try it again, but
> the problem still exists. I spent time trying to determine the issue
> but I don't understand the IEEE coding. I did discover that the data
> from the missing files are actually being included in one of the data
> frames but the data were read incorrectly.
> The XPORT files come from ftp://cusk.nmfs.noaa.gov/mrfss/intercept/ag/
> if anyone wants to try it.
> I used the .xpt in "int82ag.zip" (all years except 1985,1988 and
1989
> are read incorrectly) and it appears they were created using SASV5XPT.
> Once imported, look in data frame I3_19822 which should have only 3650
> records, but there are 76,187 records.
>
>
> I am using version:
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch i386
> os mingw32
> system i386, mingw32
> status
> major 2
> minor 6.1
> year 2007
> month 11
> day 26
> svn rev 43537
> language R
> version.string R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
>
> And package foreign is version 0.8-23.
>
> I am wondering if anyone has created a fix that isn't available yet?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Gary Nelson.
>
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