It is highly unlikely that SAS is on the path, as it does not put itself there.
read.ssd () has a 'sascmd' argument to give the path to SAS. This is explained *with a functioning Windows example*, on the help page for read.ssd. On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Austin, Matt wrote: > If sas isn't in the path, then you might have trouble with sas.get or > read.ssd. > > Assuming you are using windows, go to the Start menu, select run and type > "sas". If sas fires up it's in your path, if not then that is the reason. > > --Matt > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Bilonick >> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 8:22 PM >> To: Walter R. Paczkowski >> Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch >> Subject: Re: [R] Using pakage foreign and to import SAS file >> >> >> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 22:55 +0000, Walter R. Paczkowski wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm struggling with foreign to import a SAS file. The >> file, for lack of imagination, is d.sas7bdat and is in my >> root directory (c:\) under Windows XP. When I type >>> >>> read.ssd("c:\\", "d") >>> >>> which I think I'm suppose to enter, I get >>> >>> SAS failed. SAS program at >> C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\Rtmp32758\file19621.sas >>> The log file will be file19621.log in the current directory >>> NULL >>> Warning messages: >>> 1: "sas" not found >>> 2: SAS return code was -1 in: read.ssd("c:\\", "d") >>> >>> I have SAS 9.1 running on my computer so SAS is there. >> What am I doing wrong? -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html