sas7bdat (version 0.2)

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 each of the following:
• name
  The field name
• offset
  The field offset in packed binary row data (bytes)
• length
  The field length (bytes)
• type
  The field type, either 'character' or 'numeric'
• When the database specifies a field format and/or label, the following may also be present:
• format
  The field display format
• label
  The field label (usually a longer description)

Warning

The functionality in this package is EXPERIMENTAL. Use at your own risk. For the latest details, see the sas7bdat vignette (i.e., vignette('sas7bdat')).

References

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

Examples

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