Colleagues
During the transition to R3.0.0 (OS X), one of the packages that I used --
SASxport -- did not work until I used the "type=source" option in
install.packages.
This led to an adventure:
1. I downloaded the package source: SASxport_1.2.4.tar.gz
2. in the SASxport/R folder, I found all the functions that are part
of the package.
I became interested in whether I could "source" these functions directly into R
and re-create the functionality of the package without installing/"require"ing
the package.
This started with some success until I encountered one problem that I could not
overcome.
When I executed the function write.xport, I received the following error
message:
Error in .C("fill_file_header", cDate = xport.dateFMT(cDate), mDate =
xport.dateFMT(mDate), :
C symbol name "fill_file_header" not in load table
This appears to be coming from the following line of code in write.xport:
out(xport.file.header( cDate = cDate, sasVer = sasVer, osType = osType))
The problem appears to be in
xport.file.header
for which the entire code is:
xport.file.header <-
function(cDate=Sys.time(), mDate=cDate, sasVer="7.00", osType="Unknown" )
{
.C("fill_file_header",
cDate = xport.dateFMT(cDate), # Creation date
mDate = xport.dateFMT(mDate), # Modification date
sasVer = toupper(as.character(sasVer)), # SAS version number
osType = as.character(osType) # Operating System (can include lowercase)
)
.Call("getRawBuffer", PACKAGE="SASxport")
}
Of note, I commented out the line:
.Call("getRawBuffer", PACKAGE="SASxport")
and the same error occurred (I did not expect this is solve the problem).
I then looked in SASxport/src and found three files (which appear to be coded
in C):
init.c
writeSAS.c
writeSAS.h
that refer to "fill_file_header"
I suspect that these files need to be accessed in some manner in order for
xport.file.header and other functions to work correctly.
The question is how do I access these files:
Do I "source" them in some manner?
Put them in a particular location where they are sourced automatically?
I tried dyn.load but that does not appear to be the correct approach.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Dennis
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