if-statement in sas.get from hmisc library

["Augustyns, Ilse [PRDBE]" <IAUGUSTY@PRDBE.jnj.com>]

Hi all,

I am using sas.get from the hmisc library to load a SAS dataset into Splus.
I run into problems when using the ifs selection for character variables.
The SAS-system stops with errors on the ifs macro variable.
It runs without errors if the ifs-variable only contains numerical if-statements.

This is my code:

indata <- sas.get(library="c:\\datacollection",
                     member='SASname',variable=c('num1','char1'),
                     ifs= c('if num1 ge 5','if char1 = "CHARACTER SELECTION"'),
                    sasprog="C:\\Program Files\\SAS Institute\\SAS\\V8\\sas.exe")

Does anyone have an idea what is going wrong and how to solve this?

Kind regards,
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Ilse Augustyns
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