From bates@stat.wisc.edu  Mon Dec 13 20:30:52 1999
From: bates@stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates)
Date: 13 Dec 1999 14:30:52 -0600
Subject: SAS XPORT Transport Format
In-Reply-To: Thomas Lumley's message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:58:54 -0800 (PST)"
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Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu> writes:

> > Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > A colleague pointed out that the United States Food and Drug
> > > Administration (FDA) has adopted a transport format defined by SAS
> > > Institute as a standard for electronic submissions of data.  As a
> > > result, this format has been openly documented.
> 
> Along similar lines,  what are the prospects for grabbing the SPSS code
> from PSPP?

I think it quite likely that we could do pick up that code for use by
the R project.  Ben, could you point us to the part of PSPP where you
parse the SPSS .sav format (or whatever they call it)?

Saikat DebRoy and I are currently working on code to parse the SAS
XPORT data format and incorportate those files into R.  We can
certainly share that with you when it is complete.
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SAS XPORT Transport Format
Douglas Bates