R help - May 2011 - Loading an S object into R

I hope you'll all forgive me for displaying my severe lack of knowledge on
this topic, and I can't really provide much in the way of reproducible code.

A colleague of mine has asked if I know how to import an S object into R.  The
object is stored in a file named 'pre3.f'   When I open the file as a
text document I get what's printed below.  Being one of those young bucks
with no experience with S, and not having access to a license of S in which to
play with this, does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this (what I
assume is) data from the .f file into R?

Benjamin



S data      
   .Data class       
      8   ?- ?   coefficients var loglik score iter linear.predictors residuals
means terms n call Design assign na.action fail non.slopes stats method maxtime
time.inc units fitFunction center scale.pred x y time surv std.err surv.summary 
,
   	         
                                       
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PREOP.PSA' T.STG=T2A T.STG=T2B T.STG=T2C T.STG=T3 G1=> 3 G2=> 3 BX.POS
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Hi Benjamin,

I also have no experience with S plus, but the suggestions on the R
Import/Export manual seem worth trying:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.html#EpiInfo-Minitab-SAS-S_002dPLUS-SPSS-Stata-Systat

I also question whether this is just data, words like "loglik",
"iter", etc. seem more like a model object of some kind (which I
suppose is a type of data, but...)

Good luck,

Josh

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Nutter, Benjamin <NutterB at ccf.org>
wrote:
>
> I hope you'll all forgive me for displaying my severe lack of knowledge
on this topic, and I can't really provide much in the way of reproducible
code.
>
> A colleague of mine has asked if I know how to import an S object into R.
?The object is stored in a file named 'pre3.f' ? When I open the file as
a text document I get what's printed below. ?Being one of those young bucks
with no experience with S, and not having access to a license of S in which to
play with this, does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this (what I
assume is) data from the .f file into R?
>
> Benjamin
>
>
>
> S data
> ? .Data class ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 8 ? ?- ?? ? coefficients var loglik score
iter linear.predictors residuals means terms n call Design assign na.action fail
non.slopes stats method maxtime time.inc units fitFunction center scale.pred x y
time surv std.err surv.summary ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ,
>
>
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? K ? ? ? ? ?[ ? ? ? c ? ? ? g ? ? ? d` ?a? ???
? ? ?(? ?-? ??? ??? ?;? ??? ?G? ??? ??? ??? ??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??? ?%? ? ? ? &
??) ??,
> ? .Data .Names
>
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> 9`???7?C?%???K I????????Bt0??K#4????\??_????d ?}?e?????=6???p ? PREOP.PSA
PREOP.PSA' T.STG=T2A T.STG=T2B T.STG=T2C T.STG=T3 G1=> 3 G2=> 3 BX.POS
BX.NEG RP.YEAR G1=> 3 * G2=> 3 ? ? .Data .Dim .Dimnames ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? = ? E ? 6??w??a??_?JM g???j???E? ??rV?>? ?? T??>W D?Ow:??
> ?...
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????K???' ???P?<?Jf? ? ?P
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>
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PREOP.PSA PREOP.PSA' T.STG=T2A T.STG=T2B T.STG=T2C T.STG=T3 G1=> 3
G2=> 3 BX.POS BX.NEG RP.YEAR G1=> 3 * G2=> 3 ?w?
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