On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Stephen Arthur wrote: > Thomas, > > Your point is well taken. I spoke with the people at > SAS again, and they said that a reason why I was > having a problem with the SAS xpt file, is that my > variable names are sometimes longer than 8 characters > long. > > PROC COPY puts a limit of 8 characters length to > variable names. Does R have a limit to the length of > variable names?
No. (well, it probably does but it's so long I don't know what it is) > Instead, I used PROC CPORT, which can handle variable > names longer than 8 characters long, successfully. > > proc cport library=src2rd file=tranfile; > select use; > run; > > But now, when I try to use the R function > 'read.xport', I get the following error message: > > read.xport("J:\\QM\\Reports\\Sarthur\\SAS_Application\\SAS_Data_Sets\\use") > > Error in lookup.xport(file) : unable to open file > That means R can't find the file. Are you sure it's there? -thomas ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help