readSAS: Read a SAS b7dat Data Set

In RcmdrMisc: R Commander Miscellaneous Functions

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=FALSE)

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 (the default is FALSE) then columns containing character data are converted to factors.

Value

a data frame

Author(s)

John Fox [e-mail]

See Also

read_sas

RcmdrMisc documentation built on Sept. 27, 2023, 1:06 a.m.