foreign (version 0.8-86)

read.ssd: Obtain a Data Frame from a SAS Permanent Dataset, via read.xport

Description

Generates a SAS program to convert the ssd contents to SAS transport format and then uses read.xport to obtain a data frame.

Usage

read.ssd(libname, sectionnames, 
   tmpXport=tempfile(), tmpProgLoc=tempfile(), sascmd="sas")

Value

A data frame if all goes well, or NULL with warnings and some enduring side effects (log file for auditing)

Arguments

libname

character string defining the SAS library (usually a directory reference)

sectionnames

character vector giving member names. These are files in the libname directory. They will usually have a .ssd0x or .sas7bdat extension, which should be omitted. Use of ASCII names of at most 8 characters is strongly recommended.

tmpXport

character string: location where temporary xport format archive should reside -- defaults to a randomly named file in the session temporary directory, which will be removed.

tmpProgLoc

character string: location where temporary conversion SAS program should reside -- defaults to a randomly named file in session temporary directory, which will be removed on successful operation.

sascmd

character string giving full path to SAS executable.

Author

For Unix: VJ Carey stvjc@channing.harvard.edu

Details

Creates a SAS program and runs it.

Error handling is primitive.

See Also

read.xport