R help - Oct 2008 - SAS Data

Hello everybody,

I would like to read a SAS Data data1.sas7bdat in R! Is this possible?

Thank you a lot in advance ;),
Stefo

Stefo Ratino wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I would like to read a SAS Data data1.sas7bdat in R! Is this possible?
>   
Only if you have access to SAS. The file format is proprietary and noone
has bothered to decipher it.
> Thank you a lot in advance ;),
> Stefo
>
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library(foreign)
Rdata=read.ssd("Z:/MyFolder","data1",sascmd =
"C:/Program Files/SAS/SAS 9.1/sas.exe")

Rdata
    Y D1 D2 D3
1 100  1  0  0
2 101  1  0  0
3 105  1  0  0
4 200  0  1  0
5 201  0  1  0
6 205  0  1  0
7 300  0  0  1
8 301  0  0  1
9 305  0  0  1

where 'data1' is the SAS datafile to be read, ' Z:\\MyFolder' is
the physical path where 'data1.sas7bdat' is situated and
'sascmd' refers to the path where SAS is installed in your system.
Please confirm that your SAS is installed in the same path. Also note that you
have to install the 'foreign' package to do this.

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Subject: [R] SAS Data

Hello everybody,

I would like to read a SAS Data data1.sas7bdat in R! Is this possible?

Thank you a lot in advance ;),
Stefo

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