Date:         Wed, 16 Apr 1997 10:42:44 +0100
Reply-To:     thermo <thermo@ERMINE.OX.AC.UK>
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From:         thermo <thermo@ERMINE.OX.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: SPSS -> SAS Problems
Comments: To: Philip Holland <phil.holland@BCS.ORG.UK>
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 Philip,
 
        A really easy way of doing this could be the new version of S-PLUS
which has point-and-click data input/output from SAS, SPSS (and many other
formats). We saw the S-PLUS 4.0 Beta this week for the first time and it
seems to do a really good job of this.
 
 
        Don Fraser
        Earth Sciences,
        Oxford University
 
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Philip Holland wrote:
 
> deeweber@asimov.oit.umass.edu (Dee Weber) wrote:
> >Trying to Transfer an SPSS Export file to SAS (Dec OSF SPSS 6.1, SAS 6.11).
> >And seeing errors (below).  SPSS file contains about 24000 + cases and
> >1300 + variables.  Lots of one column variables.  The SPSS file was
> >created with DATA LISTs on 32 separate files & then MATCH FILES
> >(several of these) created kid90.  Then EXPORT OUTFILE=kid90.xpt created
> >the export file.  Nothing fancy.
> >
> >Thanks for any insight (short of converting to an ASCII file).
> >
> >ERROR: Width specified for format COMMA is invalid.
> >--
> >Dee Weber                                         weber@sadri.umass.edu
> >Social and Demographic Research Institute         413-545-0746 (fax)
> >Machmer W-34                                      413-545-5971 (voice)
> >University of Massachusetts
> >Amherst, MA  01003
>
> Dee,
>
> You can bypass the format errors by using:
>
>  OPTIONS NOFMTERR;
>
> which will allow you to create a SAS dataset.  You can then
> check the actual format/informat used in the dataset with PROC
> CONTENTS procedure or the VAR command.  The COMMA format has a
> minimum width of 2, whereas the COMMA informat has a minimum
> width of 1.
>
> HTH..............Philip R Holland <phil.holland@bcs.org.uk>
>                  Holland Numerics Ltd
>                  Royston, Herts, UK
>                  mobile: +44-(0)850-295556
>