Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0212201818300.4576-100000@istat02.stat.wisc.edu>
Date: 2002-12-21T01:21:02Z
From: Saikat DebRoy
Subject: Part II Re: [R] read.ssd {foreign} (Reading a permanent SAS d ataset into an R data frame)
>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Arthur <sarthur67 at yahoo.com> writes:
Stephen> The SAS data set I PROC CPORTed is [9] the result is [10].
Stephen> I PROC CIMPORTed [10] back to its orginal state [9], and it
Stephen> worked.
Stephen> So the SAS people think that the error is not with the SAS
Stephen> XPORT file, but with R trying to load a text SAS XPORT
Stephen> file, when it should be loading the SAS XPORT file in
Stephen> binary format? Is this a problem?
I have no idea what you mean by binary/text SAS XPORT formats. R
implements the XPORT format as described in
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote/ts140.html
and that definitely is not a text format.