On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Full_Name: Ruskin Chow
> Version: R 2.0.1
> OS: Windows 2000
> Submission from: (NULL) (203.169.154.66)
>
>
> Data imported from SAS using read.xport() in package foreign are converted to
> <NA> when the SAS data field consists of character strings that are only one
> character long.
>
> This is apparently a previously reported bug and perhaps fixed in some
> platform
> other than Windows (rw2001).Some discussion of the bug can be found from the
> following website:
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2002-April/019349.html
There is no Windows-specific version of read.xport(), so that change
happened everywhere: but that message does not say it was fixed nor which
change might have fixed it. I am guessing the change is this one
2002-03-27 Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* src/SASxport.c (IS_SASNA_CHAR): Silly typo (0x4l, not 0x41)
caught by Peter.
and that does not sound like the same thing.
> I've downloaded the latest foreign package (foreign_0.8-1.zip) from CRAN but
> it
> doesn't seem to work.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What does that mean? It `works' on its test suite: none of the changes
since 0.8 are related to this question. I don't believe there is an
example in the test suite with one-char strings, and we need an example to
reproduce what you are seeing.
So, please read the posting guide and provide us with a reproducible
example.
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