import data from splus

hi,

I have a somewhat similar problem.  I also need to move huge, somewhat
complicated objects from Splus5 to R.  I need data.restore() in R 
(in my case it should be S4/Splus5 aware).

I took a quick look at the Rstream manual, but I didn't see anything that
I could easily use/modify for this problem (right?).

Is there something out there I could use, or will data.dump()/data.restore()
need to be written for R? (BTW I think this is not an R issue per se, but
rather an R-S interface issue -- it is a fact that most of my collaborators
use Splus.)

For the record,

version

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minor    2.0                         
year     2000                        
month    11                          
day      08                          
language R

David A. James
Statistics Research, Room 2C-253            Phone:  (908) 582-3082       
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies              Fax:    (908) 582-3340
Murray Hill, NJ 09794-0636



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anybody knows how to import data into R from splus directly? I have a huge 
amount of data in splus format, which will cost forever for me to transform 
the data back to ascii or something else and then read them into R.

If that really will cost forever, then I think any route will take a long
time (and perhaps let that be a lesson not to store data in a proprietary
format).

You may find that the function readSdata in package Rstreams helps.
The normal route is to dump in S-PLUS and source in R.

Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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