Re: [R] sas.get under Linux
On Monday 02 February 2009, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: [...] Stat/Transfer has a menu option to read the SAS format catalog but I haven't tried it. Been there, done that... didn't get the t-shirt though. I tried everything I believe, but with no avail. Thanks again, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd. 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel.:+40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 Fax: +40 21 3158391 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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.
Re: [R] sas.get under Linux
Dear Ayah, On Saturday 31 January 2009, Ajay ohri wrote: Hi, have you looked at the third party SAS language compilers WPS ( 600 dollars per desktop version http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/home/ ) and Carolina ( http://dullesopen.com/) http://dullesopen.com/ http://dullesopen.com/ if you need just base SAS. Acually... no. I don't plan to use SAS in the future (I use R! :), just need it for the moment to extract some value labels. Best wishes, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd. 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel.:+40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 Fax: +40 21 3158391 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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.
Re: [R] sas.get under Linux
Dear Frank, I understand. Never used SAS before, so I don't have it installed anywhere. StatTransfer is a very useful tool indeed, but maybe I don't know how to use it properly. What I have is a mydata.sas7bdat file, along with a formats.sas7bcat file. I specified reading SAS value labels Read directly from a catalog file, but nothing appears in the output, neither in the R workspace nor in an intermediate SPSS file. I also tried exporting to a SAS portable file to import directly in R, but there is probably something obvious that I miss because value labels are not there, whatever I do... Thanks for your help, Adrian On Saturday 31 January 2009, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Adrian Dusa wrote: Dear all, I am trying to import a SAS file into R (in fact I only need the value labels from the formats file), using Hmisc package, but I get this error: my.sas - sas.get(/home/adi/3, fis1_sgg) sh: sas: not found Error in sas.get(/home/adi/3, fis1_sgg) : SAS job failed with status 32512 I read some past discussions and I get the impression that sas.get() needs the full path to the SAS executable, but I don't have that because I am using Linux. Is it possible to use sas.get() without having SAS installed? Since sas.get is trying to execute sas the answer is a definite no unless you use the sas.get option to run SAS on another machine to produce the input ASCII files needed by sas.get. Also investigate sasxport.get if you have SAS version 5 transport files to import. See also http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SASexportHowto As SAS never got it right in allowing for full metadata to be included in a SAS dataset, you often have to run PROC FORMAT CNTLOUT=... to convert format libraries to SAS datasets so that programs such as sasxport.get can assign value labels [if you have SAS installed, sas.get runs PROC CONTENTS for you.]. SPSS and Stata have always been ahead of SAS in this regard. Note that the excellent Stat/Transfer commercial product will convert from almost any SAS dataset format to compact R binary objects, including variable labels the way the Hmisc package handles them. If you have another way to convert from SAS to Stata or SPSS, R is great at readying those formats. Frank Or alternatively, is there another function to import the formats into R? Thanks in advance for any hint, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd. 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel.:+40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 Fax: +40 21 3158391 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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.
Re: [R] sas.get under Linux
Adrian Dusa wrote: Dear Frank, I understand. Never used SAS before, so I don't have it installed anywhere. StatTransfer is a very useful tool indeed, but maybe I don't know how to use it properly. What I have is a mydata.sas7bdat file, along with a formats.sas7bcat file. I specified reading SAS value labels Read directly from a catalog file, but nothing appears in the output, neither in the R workspace nor in an intermediate SPSS file. I also tried exporting to a SAS portable file to import directly in R, but there is probably something obvious that I miss because value labels are not there, whatever I do... Thanks for your help, Adrian Stat/Transfer has a menu option to read the SAS format catalog but I haven't tried it. Frank On Saturday 31 January 2009, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Adrian Dusa wrote: Dear all, I am trying to import a SAS file into R (in fact I only need the value labels from the formats file), using Hmisc package, but I get this error: my.sas - sas.get(/home/adi/3, fis1_sgg) sh: sas: not found Error in sas.get(/home/adi/3, fis1_sgg) : SAS job failed with status 32512 I read some past discussions and I get the impression that sas.get() needs the full path to the SAS executable, but I don't have that because I am using Linux. Is it possible to use sas.get() without having SAS installed? Since sas.get is trying to execute sas the answer is a definite no unless you use the sas.get option to run SAS on another machine to produce the input ASCII files needed by sas.get. Also investigate sasxport.get if you have SAS version 5 transport files to import. See also http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SASexportHowto As SAS never got it right in allowing for full metadata to be included in a SAS dataset, you often have to run PROC FORMAT CNTLOUT=... to convert format libraries to SAS datasets so that programs such as sasxport.get can assign value labels [if you have SAS installed, sas.get runs PROC CONTENTS for you.]. SPSS and Stata have always been ahead of SAS in this regard. Note that the excellent Stat/Transfer commercial product will convert from almost any SAS dataset format to compact R binary objects, including variable labels the way the Hmisc package handles them. If you have another way to convert from SAS to Stata or SPSS, R is great at readying those formats. Frank Or alternatively, is there another function to import the formats into R? Thanks in advance for any hint, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd. 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel.:+40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 Fax: +40 21 3158391 -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University __ 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.
[R] sas.get under Linux
Dear all, I am trying to import a SAS file into R (in fact I only need the value labels from the formats file), using Hmisc package, but I get this error: my.sas - sas.get(/home/adi/3, fis1_sgg) sh: sas: not found Error in sas.get(/home/adi/3, fis1_sgg) : SAS job failed with status 32512 I read some past discussions and I get the impression that sas.get() needs the full path to the SAS executable, but I don't have that because I am using Linux. Is it possible to use sas.get() without having SAS installed? Or alternatively, is there another function to import the formats into R? Thanks in advance for any hint, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd. 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel.:+40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 Fax: +40 21 3158391 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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.
Re: [R] sas.get under Linux
Adrian Dusa wrote: Dear all, I am trying to import a SAS file into R (in fact I only need the value labels from the formats file), using Hmisc package, but I get this error: my.sas - sas.get(/home/adi/3, fis1_sgg) sh: sas: not found Error in sas.get(/home/adi/3, fis1_sgg) : SAS job failed with status 32512 I read some past discussions and I get the impression that sas.get() needs the full path to the SAS executable, but I don't have that because I am using Linux. Is it possible to use sas.get() without having SAS installed? Since sas.get is trying to execute sas the answer is a definite no unless you use the sas.get option to run SAS on another machine to produce the input ASCII files needed by sas.get. Also investigate sasxport.get if you have SAS version 5 transport files to import. See also http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SASexportHowto As SAS never got it right in allowing for full metadata to be included in a SAS dataset, you often have to run PROC FORMAT CNTLOUT=... to convert format libraries to SAS datasets so that programs such as sasxport.get can assign value labels [if you have SAS installed, sas.get runs PROC CONTENTS for you.]. SPSS and Stata have always been ahead of SAS in this regard. Note that the excellent Stat/Transfer commercial product will convert from almost any SAS dataset format to compact R binary objects, including variable labels the way the Hmisc package handles them. If you have another way to convert from SAS to Stata or SPSS, R is great at readying those formats. Frank Or alternatively, is there another function to import the formats into R? Thanks in advance for any hint, Adrian -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University __ 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.
Re: [R] sas.get under Linux
Hi, have you looked at the third party SAS language compilers WPS ( 600 dollars per desktop version http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/home/ ) and Carolina ( http://dullesopen.com/) http://dullesopen.com/ http://dullesopen.com/ if you need just base SAS. I think SAS institute existing products have been debating the approach for R ( compared to SPSS) but that is a digression. I am not sure on compatibility with sas.get , but a WPS to R bridge is additionally available from www.minequest.com /Phil Rack Regards, Ajay On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu wrote: Adrian Dusa wrote: Dear all, I am trying to import a SAS file into R (in fact I only need the value labels from the formats file), using Hmisc package, but I get this error: my.sas - sas.get(/home/adi/3, fis1_sgg) sh: sas: not found Error in sas.get(/home/adi/3, fis1_sgg) : SAS job failed with status 32512 I read some past discussions and I get the impression that sas.get() needs the full path to the SAS executable, but I don't have that because I am using Linux. Is it possible to use sas.get() without having SAS installed? Since sas.get is trying to execute sas the answer is a definite no unless you use the sas.get option to run SAS on another machine to produce the input ASCII files needed by sas.get. Also investigate sasxport.get if you have SAS version 5 transport files to import. See also http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SASexportHowto As SAS never got it right in allowing for full metadata to be included in a SAS dataset, you often have to run PROC FORMAT CNTLOUT=... to convert format libraries to SAS datasets so that programs such as sasxport.get can assign value labels [if you have SAS installed, sas.get runs PROC CONTENTS for you.]. SPSS and Stata have always been ahead of SAS in this regard. Note that the excellent Stat/Transfer commercial product will convert from almost any SAS dataset format to compact R binary objects, including variable labels the way the Hmisc package handles them. If you have another way to convert from SAS to Stata or SPSS, R is great at readying those formats. Frank Or alternatively, is there another function to import the formats into R? Thanks in advance for any hint, Adrian -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University __ 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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.
