similar to: Another question, unfortunately. . . .(Installing "foreign"/trying to import/export SAS files)

Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Shoultz, Gerald [SMTP:bjz9 at cdc.gov] > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:38 PM > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] Another question, unfortunately. . . .(Installing > "foreign"/trying to import/export SAS files) > > > I am trying to use read.ssd and then read.xport (to get a SAS data set). > I have

Sorry to write twice in one day--I am a relative newbie to some of these parts of R, and I am pulling my hair out! B/c I am preparing a file to use WINBUGS I am cross-posting to the BUGS group as well, in case anyone there has some ideas on this. I've got a large SAS dataset that I want to put in R form to more easily use the file with the hierarchical modeling software WINBUGS. It has

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Arthur <sarthur67 at yahoo.com> writes: Stephen> The SAS data set I PROC CPORTed is [9] the result is [10]. Stephen> I PROC CIMPORTed [10] back to its orginal state [9], and it Stephen> worked. Stephen> So the SAS people think that the error is not with the SAS Stephen> XPORT file, but with R trying to load a text

Even though the FDA has no policies at all that limit our choices of statistical software, there is one defacto standard in place: reliance of the SAS transport file format for data submission (even though this format is deficient for this purpose, e.g., it does not even document value labels or units of measurement in a self-contained way). Because of the widespread use of SAS transport files in

Hi, I am trying to read a SAS version 9.1.3 SAS dataset into R (to preserve the SAS labels), but am unable to do so (I have read in a CSV version). I first created a transport file using the SAS code: libname ces2 'D:\CES Analysis\Data'; filename transp 'D:\CES Analysis\Data\fadata.xpt'; /* create a transport file - R cannot read file created by proc cport */ proc

Scot, Thanks for the additional information. On further reflection... whether one uses SAS PROC EXPORT or uses a SAS LIBNAME yourfile XPORT 'yourpathname'; statement, an intermediate file is created in either case. As far as experience tells me now, PROC EXPORT is a far superior choice, because variable names do not get truncated and you only have to deal with reading in a simple text

Scot, Thanks for the info. I will try your code out to verify the result, but before I do that, will your code (SAS and R) work with variable names that are longer than 8 characters long without truncating the variable name in R? Also, I wonder about using your method or the PROC EXPORT method with larger data sets. The data sets I will be working with for the most part will not be that large,

Hi I'm trying to read SAS-data on VAX/VMS to Windows R using foreign pakage read.xport and experience some problems. Following lines are used in SAS to create XPORT file LIBNAME a ''xxx; LIBNAME b XPORT ''; PROC COPY IN=a OUT=b; RUN; and I succeed in getting file that looks like correct xport file.However when typing in R following

I have encountered a problem reading SAS transport files on both a Mac (OS X) and Linux (RedHat 9), both using R2.0.1. After loading "foreign", the command: read.xport("V1622101_050304.xpt") yields: Error in lookup.xport(file) : File not in SAS transfer format In Linux, I can "cat" the file. The first few lines are: **COMPRESSED** **COMPRESSED** **COMPRESSED**

The Details. In the following version. > version _ platform i386-pc-linux-gnu arch i386 os linux-gnu system i386, linux-gnu status major 1 minor 8.1 year 2003 month 11 day 21 language R > lookup.xport ignores some datasets in sas export file. File "emptySasData3.xpt" (available at http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/tmp/emptySasData3.xpt) is a

{Note the DATE ! this message bounced ... because it was sent to R-announce which was definitely the wrong list anyway. MM - your list maintainer } Dear R-Team I have installed R version 0.990 and the foreign package under Windows NT.. Whilst lookup.xport() works as it should, read.xport() crashes reporting an "access error" as well for larger datasets as also for small

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:

I am attempting to read in a SAS 9.1 data file. After starting R I change to the directory containing the sas data file and use the "dir" command to confirm that it is there. Then I run the following R-code: library(foreign) sashome <- "/Program Files/SAS/SAS 9.1" test<-read.ssd(file.path(sashome), "pcb", sascmd = file.path(sashome,

Hi everyone, my apologies in advance if I'm overlooking something simple in this question. I am trying to use R's survey package to make a direct method age-adjustment to some complex survey data. I have played with postStratify, calibrate, rake, and simply multiplying the base weights by the correct proportions - nothing seems to hit the published numbers on the nose. I am trying to

Hi, SAS transport files created with the xport engine in SAS can be read using read.xport. However, the xport engine only works with SAS version 6, and consequently long variable names are not allowed... Can anyone tell me how to get SAS data (ver 8) into R (easily)? Thanks in advance S?ren H?jsgaard sorenh at agrsci.dk http://www.jbs.agrsci.dk/~sorenh

Under platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status major 1 minor 6.1 year 2002 month 11 day 01 language R and using foreign 0.5-8 I am encountering errors when using read.xport. Here's

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

Looked at a lot of documentation and listserv postings and still can’t solve this problem. I need to get a SAS dataset into R. I’ve converted it to an .xpt file and when I try to read it I get: > read.xport("cft2008R") Error: could not find function "read.xport" > Not sure what I’m doing wrong. I’m running SAS 9.1.3 on an UNIX box. I ftp’d the file over to my

Dear All, I try to read the SAS transport file in R, but it shows error. Please help! I am using R 2.11.1 library(foreign) download.file("http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic35387.files/demo_c.xpt","C:/Desktop/demo_c.xpt") sasxport <- read.xport("C:/Desktop/demo_c.xpt") Error in lookup.xport(file) : file not in SAS transfer format -- View this

Hello, I'm trying to import a SAS file made using SAS on Unix. Currently I'm using SAS on Windows and I'm trying to import that .ssd04 file to R. The file name of the file is testfile.ssd04 and it is located in 'M:\sasuser'. I'm using Windows XP and R 2.91. Basically what I'm doing is ############ r code ############## > library(foreign) > sashome <-