topic import v8xpt files from Stata in SAS Programming

import v8xpt files from Stata

Anton64 — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:33:57 GMT

I have to import a file from stata in v8xpt format.

My SAS version is the 9.4.

Which procedure should I to follow?

Running the macro %xpt2loc it returns the error:

ERROR: Invalid DO loop control information, either the INITIAL or TO expression is missing or the BY expression is missing, zero,

or invalid.

Re: import v8xpt files from Stata

Tom — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:50:45 GMT

So you asked STATA to write data in SAS's transport format?

Note that SAS transport files are binary files, even though the top of the file looks like text, so make sure to move them as binary when transferring using tools like FTP.

You can look at the beginning of the file to see if it really looks like a SAS transport file. An easy way is with a simple data step.

What do you get if you run something like this?

data _null_;
  infile 'mydata.xpt' lrecl=80 recfm=f obs=3 ;
  input;
  list;
run;

Re: import v8xpt files from Stata

Anton64 — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:57:20 GMT

the file used as test has the extension .V8xpt and the system is not recognizing it.