I regularly work in SPSS with large files created by programmers in SAS, which are then split into several Excel files (since total # of records exceeds the # of records a single Excel file can hold) and forwarded to me. I then open and save the Excel files as separate SPSS files before merging these into a big SPSS file. This is cumbersome and time-consuming and I'm looking for tools to streamline the process.

A SAS-using friend recommended Stat/Transfer. Any experience out there with Stat/Transfer or any other application to directly transfer large data files from SAS to SPSS and vice versa? (I'm using SPSS 14.0 and my colleagues use SAS 8.x).

Thanks,

Tanya Temkin

Research Associate AACC Reporting Northern California Regional Office The Permanente Medical Group

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