On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Saikat Debroy wrote: > I have no idea what you mean by binary/text SAS XPORT formats. R > implements the XPORT format as described in > http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote/ts140.html > and that definitely is not a text format. >
Quoth http://www.nber.org/data/sasport.html : --------------- There are two main kinds of SAS portable format datasets. These are CPORT and XPORT. Both are popularly referred to as Transport datasets, but they are quite different, and completely incompatible. The CPORT datasets have the advantage that they can contain a wide variety of SAS objects, not just datasets. However, they have no backwards portability at all. Indeed, I am informed by SAS tech support that even lateral portability is not to be taken for granted. The earliest version of SAS for Unix to be able to read CPORT files generated under MVS 6.07 is 6.07.3 - not the more widespread release 6.07.2. The true portable format is the XPORT format. Supposedly this has full forwards and backwards compatibility (but see below). Only datasets can be transferred with XPORT, not catalogs, formats, etc. This is the format you would use to send data to another site. ---------------------- So CPORT is different, we don't know what the format is, and it may not be documented anywhere. -thomas ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
