--- Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 14:38 -0400, John Kane wrote: > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > John, > > > > > > Do you not have sas on your machine? (That would > > > definitely keep sas.get > > > from executing.) > > > > > > Regards, > > > -Cody > > > > No I don't have SAS on my machine. Nobody in my > group > > uses it and we seldom use SPSS. I think one person > has > > STATA. Most of the work is more policy than data > work > > and the occasional spreadsheet (shudder) does for > > basic work. > > > > I am too cheap to have us spend a huge amount > (well, > > large amount anyway) for something that I am > likely > > to use for 5-10 minutes a year. The last time I > wanted > > a SPSS file exported to "delimited" I just asked > > someone in another department whom I knew has it > on > > his labtop to do it. > > > > I just hike across campus to the nearest lab with > SAS, > > SPSS etc installed. Done occasionally and in > decent > > weather it is not a problem. Today it is turning > into > > a marathon but I need to lose some weight. > > <snip> > > John, I believe that this has been mentioned on the > list previously, but > if you don't have convenient access to SAS, they do > offer a free > download called the SAS System Viewer. It can read > the proprietary SAS > datasets and then enable you to save them as ASCII > delimited files.
Thanks Marc. I had seen a reference to that and lost it. I'll get a copy. However the major purpose of using sas.get is/was to keep the value labels and variable labels. For the number of times in a year that I need SAS , the 5 minute walk to the nearest lab with SAS etc is not a problem. At the moment I will probably have to resort to the SAS > SPSS > R route. A pain but not that bad. At the moment I am finding it easier to import the SAS file into SPSS than to load it in SAS. > > It is available at the SAS web site here: > > http://www.sas.com/apps/demosdownloads/sassystemviewer_PROD_9.1.3_sysdep.jsp?packageID=000313 > > There is also DBMS/Copy, which is by DataFlux (now a > SAS subsidiary). > More information is here: > > http://www.dataflux.com/Technology/Products/DBMS/ > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > > ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.