Howdy
I believe that the latest version of Stat/Transfer does support
"compressed" SAS data files. So, if you feel that this will be an
ongoing need, perhaps this is a good time to get an upgrade (but
please check with them to verify it does read compressed files).
Or, the alternative, as others mentioned, is to get someone with SAS
to read the file and then save it in an uncompressed form, e.g.
data "mynewfile" (compress = no);
set "existingfile";
run;
Best luck,
Michael
On 10/19/07, Christine E. Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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