R help - Jan 2011 - Reading large SAS dataset in R

Hi all,

I have a large (approx. 1 GB) SAS dataset (test.sas7bdat) located in the
server (“R:/” directory). I have SAS 9.1 installed in my PC and I can read
the SAS dataset in SAS, under a windows environment, after assigning libname
in "R:\" directory.



Now I am trying to read the SAS dataset in R (R 2.12.0) using the read.ssd
function of the “foreign” package, but I get an error message “SAS failed”.
I believe I have specified the paths correctly (after reading some previous
posts I made sure that I do it right). Below is the small code:



sashome<- "C:/Program Files/SAS/SAS 9.1"

read.ssd(libname="R:/", sectionnames="test",
sascmd=file.path(sashome,
"sas.exe"))



Please let me know where I am making the mistake. Is it because of the size
of the file or the location of the file (in server instead of local hard
drive)?



Thanks in advance,

Santanu


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Santanu Pramanik
Survey Statistician
NORC at the University of Chicago
Bethesda, MD

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Santanu -
    If you have sas installed on your computer, you may find using
the sas.get function of the Hmisc package useful.
    If the only message that read.ssd produced was "Sas failed", it
would be difficult to figure out what went wrong.   Usually the 
location of the log file, which would explain the error more 
thoroughly, is included in the error message.

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu


On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Santanu Pramanik wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a large (approx. 1 GB) SAS dataset (test.sas7bdat) located in the
> server (?R:/? directory). I have SAS 9.1 installed in my PC and I can read
> the SAS dataset in SAS, under a windows environment, after assigning
libname
> in "R:\" directory.
>
>
>
> Now I am trying to read the SAS dataset in R (R 2.12.0) using the read.ssd
> function of the ?foreign? package, but I get an error message ?SAS failed?.
> I believe I have specified the paths correctly (after reading some previous
> posts I made sure that I do it right). Below is the small code:
>
>
>
> sashome<- "C:/Program Files/SAS/SAS 9.1"
>
> read.ssd(libname="R:/", sectionnames="test",
sascmd=file.path(sashome,
> "sas.exe"))
>
>
>
> Please let me know where I am making the mistake. Is it because of the size
> of the file or the location of the file (in server instead of local hard
> drive)?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Santanu
>
>
> -- 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Santanu Pramanik
> Survey Statistician
> NORC at the University of Chicago
> Bethesda, MD
>
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>
>