RcmdrMisc (version 2.5-1)

readSAS: Read a SAS b7dat Data Set

Description

readSAS reads a SAS ``b7dat'' data set, stored in a file of type .sas7bdat, into an R data frame; it provides a front end to the read_sas function in the haven package.

Usage

readSAS(file, rownames=FALSE, 
       stringsAsFactors=default.stringsAsFactors())

Arguments

file

path to a SAS b7dat file.

rownames

if TRUE (the default is FALSE), the first column in the data set contains row names (which must be unique---i.e., no duplicates).

stringsAsFactors

if TRUE then columns containing character data are converted to factors; the default is taken from default.stringsAsFactors().

Value

a data frame

See Also

read_sas