Re: Part II Re: [R] read.ssd {foreign} (Reading a permanent SAS d ataset into an R data frame)

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From: Saikat Debroy (saikat@stat.wisc.edu)
Date: Sat 21 Dec 2002 - 11:20:17 EST


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>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Arthur <sarthur67@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.

>From the error message, I think it can open the file but does not
recognize it to be a valid SAS XPORT format file.

If it would be possible for you to provide me with a sample XPORT
format file I may try to see why we are having a problem. However,
I may not find the time to look at it before January.

Saikat

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