[R] Reading SAS data into R

From: Shubha Vishwanath Karanth <shubhak_at_ambaresearch.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 16:01:03 +0530


Hi R,  

Suppose that SAS dataset 'tsubset1' is stored in the path, "Z:/data". Then I give the below read.ssd() command to read SAS dataset, 'tsubset1.sas7bat' into R.  

> library(foreign)

> s=read.ssd("Z:/data","tsubset1",sascmd = "C:/Program Files/SAS/SAS
9.1/sas.exe")

> s

  A B C

1 3 4 5

2 6 7 8

3 3 4 5  

It reads perfect! It reads well for "tsubset1","tsubset2",....., "tsubset9" datasets. But then onwards it gives an error as below:  

SAS failed. SAS program at
C:\DOCUME~1\SHUBHA~1.AMB\LOCALS~1\Temp\1\RtmpObHuqk\file6df11649.sas

The log file will be file6df11649.log in the current directory

Warning message:

In read.ssd("Z:/data", "tsubset1011", sascmd = "C:/Program Files/SAS/SAS 9.1/sas.exe") :

  SAS return code was 2  

Why is this? Are two numerical digits in a filename of a SAS dataset cannot be read by R? The error prevails for "tsubset201", "tsubset35462" etc.... Can somebody point out to me where actually the error is?  

Many Thanks,

Shubha

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