Hi All, Sorry that I didn't provide enough information.
I've been trying to import SAS xport files that contain multiple files using package foreign's read.xport. I first attempted this back in 2005 and had problems. Some of files that were present in the SAS xport file weren't being created in R. I submitted my problem to the community: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/57864.html and Dr. Dalgaard confirmed the issue: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/57868.html >From what I've read, this problem was identified before 2005: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/03a/0527.html After updating to version 2.6.1 recently, I decided to try it again, but the problem still exists. I spent time trying to determine the issue but I don't understand the IEEE coding. I did discover that the data from the missing files are actually being included in one of the data frames but the data were read incorrectly. The XPORT files come from ftp://cusk.nmfs.noaa.gov/mrfss/intercept/ag/ if anyone wants to try it. I used the .xpt in "int82ag.zip" (all years except 1985,1988 and 1989 are read incorrectly) and it appears they were created using SASV5XPT. Once imported, look in data frame I3_19822 which should have only 3650 records, but there are 76,187 records. I am using version: platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 6.1 year 2007 month 11 day 26 svn rev 43537 language R version.string R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26) And package foreign is version 0.8-23. I am wondering if anyone has created a fix that isn't available yet? Thanks, Gary Nelson. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.