Re: [R] Handling large SAS file in R

2014-02-05 Thread Matthew Shotwell
Completing the reverse engineering effort is the principle barrier to fully incorporating the sas7bdat file format. Of course, SAS may change the format specification at any time, and without our knowledge. The sas7bdat package is a repository for the results of our (myself, Clint Cummins, and

Re: [R] Handling large SAS file in R

2014-01-29 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 11:51 -0800, Fisher Dennis a écrit : Marc I understand that R is staffed entirely by volunteers and I appreciate the massive efforts that have created this awesome software. My suggestion was aiming to encourage the Core team that one weakness of the present

[R] Handling large SAS file in R

2014-01-28 Thread Dennis Fisher
Colleagues Frank Harrell wrote that “you need to purchase Stat/Transfer, which I did many years ago and continue to use. But I don’t understand why the sas7bdat package (or something equivalent) cannot reverse engineer the SAS procedures so that R users can read sas7bdat files as well as

Re: [R] Handling large SAS file in R

2014-01-28 Thread Marc Schwartz
Dennis, The key difference is that with R, you are, as always, dependent upon volunteers providing software at no charge to you, most of whom have full time (and then some) jobs. Those jobs (and in many cases, family) will be their priority, as I am sure is the case with Matt. Unless they

Re: [R] Handling large SAS file in R

2014-01-28 Thread Fisher Dennis
Marc I understand that R is staffed entirely by volunteers and I appreciate the massive efforts that have created this awesome software. My suggestion was aiming to encourage the Core team that one weakness of the present structure is less-than-optimal interchangeability with SAS. If this