similar to: SAS transport files and read.xport

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 trying to import data from a SAS XPORT file that contains 24 SAS files. When I use the "read.xport" procedure only about 16 data frames (components) are created. Any suggestions? ************************************************************************* Gary A. Nelson, Ph.D Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries 30 Emerson Avenue Gloucester, MA 01930 Phone: (978)

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

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

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

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

Dear All, I get the following error when using either SASxport or Hmisc to read an .xpt file: > w <- read.xport("D:/consult/Trophos/dnp/base/TRO_ds_20081006.xpt") Erreur dans factor(x, f$value, f$label) : invalid labels; length 15 should be 1 or 14 > z<- sasxport.get("D:/consult/Trophos/dnp/base/TRO_ds_20081006.xpt") Erreur dans factor(x, f$value, f$label) :

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**

I have found that data imported from SAS using read.xport() in package foreign (installed recently) does not match the original data, when the data consists of character strings that are only one character long. Here is an example. ---- SAS commands to create the data ---- options nocenter; data foo; a='a'; b='bb'; length c d $2; c='c'; d='

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

Hi All, is there a way of directly writing to disk file, the dataframe or list of dataframes that result from read.xport function. This function converts SAS export files to R dataframes. I would like to convert a SAS transport file to R, but the resulting R dataframes do not fit in the memory of my computer. Is there way to write the output of this fucntion to disk, perhaps using some pipe or

Full_Name: Jorge A. Tomasevic Version: 1.2.2 OS: Win98 Submission from: (NULL) (146.83.23.177) As i'm not an "R-expert-user", i will describe what i do: i) open Rgui.exe ii) ivoke foreign library : >library(foreign) iii) i try to read an .xpt file (from Systat 9): >datos <- read.xport('ipoisson.xpt') iv) then the program crashes. Norton CrashGuard alerts the

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 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

Hello R folk I have an xpt file which I have been trying to open into R in R studio On the net I found guidance which says that I need packages Hmisc and SASxport which I have successfully loaded. I had also found some code which says that this would allow me to read the xpt file into R: library(SASxport) data(Alfalfa) lookup.xport("test.xpt")

> On Apr 13, 2018, at 10:01 AM, WRAY NICHOLAS via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote: > > Hello R folk > > I have an xpt file which I have been trying to open into R in R studio > > On the net I found guidance which says that I need packages Hmisc and SASxport which I have successfully loaded. > > I had also found some code which says that this would allow

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

> On Apr 14, 2018, at 12:18 PM, WRAY NICHOLAS via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote: > > > -------- Original Message ---------- > From: WRAY NICHOLAS <nicholas.wray at ntlworld.com> > To: peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> > Date: 14 April 2018 at 20:18 > Subject: Re: [R] Reading xpt files into R > > > Well yesterday I'd downloaded

-------- Original Message ---------- From: WRAY NICHOLAS <nicholas.wray at ntlworld.com> To: peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> Date: 14 April 2018 at 20:18 Subject: Re: [R] Reading xpt files into R Well yesterday I'd downloaded the "foreign" package and tried to open the xpt file using that: library(foreign) read.xport("test.xpt") I got the following

A colleague pointed out that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has adopted a transport format defined by SAS Institute as a standard for electronic submissions of data. As a result, this format has been openly documented. The URL for the documentation on the format is http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote/ts140.html Information on the FDA standards for