read.ssd {foreign} (Reading a permanent SAS dataset into an R data frame)
I just downloaded and installed R 1.6.1 on my Windows machine where I also run SAS. I want to use the 'read.ssd' function so that I can convert a permanent SAS data set into an R data frame. I downloaded and installed the package 'foreign' on my machine, which includes the 'read.ssd' function. I read the instructions, and followed the example closely in the R documentation. C:\Program Files\R\rw1061\library\foreign\html\read.ssd.html When I run the first R command, in the example, on my SAS library:
list.files("C:\\My Documents\\SAS_Data_Sets")
I get the correct output. When I run the second R command, in the example,
read.ssd("C:\\My Documents\\SAS_Data_Sets","use")
I get the following message, 'Error: couldn't find function "read.ssd"' Why is R saying it can not find the function 'read.ssd' when I downloaded it and I see it in my file system? Thanks for your help, Stephen