Using pakage foreign and to import SAS file

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Rick Bilonick
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 8:22 PM
To: Walter R. Paczkowski
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Using pakage foreign and to import SAS file


On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 22:55 +0000, Walter R. Paczkowski wrote:

Hi,

I'm struggling with foreign to import a SAS file.  The 

file, for lack of imagination, is d.sas7bdat and is in my 
root directory (c:\) under Windows XP.  When I type

read.ssd("c:\\", "d")

which I think I'm suppose to enter, I get

SAS failed.  SAS program at 

C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\Rtmp32758\file19621.sas 

The log file will be file19621.log in the current directory
NULL
Warning messages:
1: "sas" not found 
2: SAS return code was -1 in: read.ssd("c:\\", "d") 

I have SAS 9.1 running on my computer so SAS is there.  

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Walt

I've not used read.ssd but I've had good results with sas.get 
in Hmisc.

Rick B.