Stat Transfer doesn't support enrypted or compressed SAS files.
So you have to ask someone with SAS to provide the correct format, if not
the original creator of the file, then perhaps a friend/colleague with
access to SAS. Not exactly a technical solution, but a perfectly workable
one.
Christine Leonard
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 9:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: SAS SAS7BDAT file into Stata9
Sorry, I should have been more precise: I can't get StatTransfer7 to read
the .sas7bdat file.
StatTransfer7 will accept either (a) SAS files for unix (*.sas7*) or (b) SAS
transport files (*.TPT, *.XPT). Although the SAS file that I am trying to
convert has a .SAS7* extension, StatTransfer says that it cannot read the
file because it is compressed.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anders
Alexandersson
Sent: 19 October 2007 14:07
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: SAS SAS7BDAT file into Stata9
Steve <[email protected]> asked:
> What is the easiest way to get a SAS7BDAT file into Stata9?
Abdel Rahmen El Lahga suggested StatTransfer. Steve responded that he has
StatTransfer 7 but that "this won't do it". Christine Leonard suggested the
SAS macro %usesas but Steve responded that he does not have SAS. Abdel
Rahmen and Christine gave reasonable suggestions to a vague problem
description.
Steve, if you can read the SAS file in StatTransfer 7 (or in DBMS/Copy, if
you have it) --you didn't
tell-- then you should be able to save the SAS dataset into a format that
Stata understands, for example and older Stata dataset, and then use Stata 9
to read this data and save it as a Stata 9 dataset. Another option is to use
a recent version of SPSS, if you have this, to read the SAS dataset into
SPSS and then save it as a Stata dataset that your Stata 9 can read. Yet
another option is to install R and use its foreign package for the
conversion but it is not as easy, if you have never used R before.
Anders Alexandersson
[email protected]
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