sas7bdat (version 0.1)

read.sas7bdat: SAS Database Reader (experimental)

Description

Read SAS files in the sas7bdat data format.

Usage

read.sas7bdat(file)

Arguments

file

Path to a file or an URL.

Value

• A data frame corresponding to the SAS database. The returned data frame has an column.info attribute, which contains additional information about each field in the data frame, respectively. The column.info attribute is a list of lists, containing zero or more of the following:
• name
  The field name
• label
  The field label (usually a longer description)
• offset
  The field offset in packed binary row data (bytes)
• length
  The field length (bytes)
• type
  The field type, either 'character' or 'numeric'

Warning

The functionality in this package is EXPERIMENTAL and may not work for all SAS databases having the extension sas7bdat! Use at your own risk. For more details, see the package vignettes.

References

http://biostatmatt.com/archives/tag/sas7bdat

Examples

# read.sas7bdat("http://bus.utk.edu/stat/stat579/hotel.sas7bdat")