suggestions about import SAS results to R.

Well it was worth a try. If you haven't solved the problem some other
way I suggest exporting from SAS to a plain text format like .csv and
read into R with read.table.

Best,
Ista

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Yuan, Rebecca
<

rebecca.yuan@

> wrote:

Hello Ista,

Thanks for mention this package, however, it will not support big file,
where I got the error message:

----------------------
Error in read.sas7bdat("C:/Documents and Settings/test.sas7bdat") :
  big endian files are not supported
----------------------

Cheers,

Rebecca

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From: Ista Zahn [mailto:

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]

Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:25 PM
To: Yuan, Rebecca
Cc: R help; 

sas-l at .uga

Subject: Re: [R] suggestions about import SAS results to R.

Hi Rebecca,

I've had success with the sas7bdat package (
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sas7bdat/ )

Best,
Ista

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Yuan, Rebecca <

rebecca.yuan@

> wrote:

Hello all,

Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried to import data from sas to R using foreign package. In the
first step, I tried to use read.ssd() to convert the sas file
sales.sas7bdat to SAS Transport formats. But I got an error message as
---------------------------------------------------------------

source("testss.r")

Error in file.symlink(oldPath, linkPath) :
  symbolic links are not supported on this version of Windows
---------------------------------------------------------------

While in testss.r,

---------------------------------------------------------------
require(foreign)
rm(list=ls())
sashome <- "C:/Program Files/SAS/SASFoundation/9.2/"
checkfile <- read.ssd("C:/Documents and Settings/test","sales",sascmd
= file.path(sashome, "sas.exe"))
---------------------------------------------------------------

I am using windows xp and R 2.15.2.

Thanks!

Rebecca




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] On Behalf

Of Suzen, Mehmet
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:14 PM
To: David Winsemius
Cc: Yuan, Rebecca; R help; 

sas-l at .uga

Subject: Re: [R] suggestions about import SAS results to R.

On Jan 2, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Yuan, Rebecca wrote:

I am wondering if there is an efficient way to read SAS data directly
in R, or what would be a better connection between SAS and R if I need
to use R to deal with data achieved from SAS?

You may try foreign and SASxport packages:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreign/index.html
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SASxport/index.html

But I heard that there might be some issues with the newest SAS version
but give it a try...

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