problem with CHAR compressed SAS datasets

[reikoch]

Not all char compressed SAS datasets can be read; possibly when a certain size is exceeded.

An example dataset with 16 MB random generated data you find as "bar.sas7bdat" in [https://github.com/reikoch/testfiles].

read_sas refuses to read it with the message

read_sas('~/xx/bar.sas7bdat')
Error: Failed to parse /opt/BIOSTAT/home/kochr4/xx/bar.sas7bdat: Invalid file, or file has unsupported features.

Subsets of this file work fine.

[evanmiller]

Is it row subsets or column subsets that work fine?

[evanmiller]

By the way this is a ReadStat issue so please re-file over here:

https://github.com/WizardMac/ReadStat/issues

Thanks!

[hadley]

Closing since this is mostly a readstat issue.