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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:24:42 PST
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- From: Wilf ROSEN <rosen@CS.SFU.CA>
- Subject: Splus File Formats?
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- Cheers :
-
- I frequently have to create multidimensional contingeny tables from
- fairly large survey data files. What I wanna do now is to get these
- tables into Splus (for DOS) in the form of data frames so that I can
- for instance, fit loglinear models. I realize one way to do this
- would be to dump the contingency table to an ascii file that would
- later be read into S via the read.table() function. The resulting S
- data frame would of course then be stored as a disk file in the _data
- directory. If I knew the format of this disk file, I would be able to
- have my program write the Splus data frame file directly. Although I
- realize that this knowledge won't end world hunger, it would make
- things more convenient (well, for me at least). So, I would like to
- know if the file format Splus uses for storing data frames
- (or any Splus object I guess) on disk is available somewhere. Any
- information or suggestions would be appreciated.
-
- Thanks for reading this far.
-
- Wilf Rosenbaum
- rosen@cs.sfu.ca
-