R/xport.R

In foreign: Read Data Stored by 'Minitab', 'S', 'SAS', 'SPSS', 'Stata', 'Systat', 'Weka', 'dBase', ...

### This file is part of the 'foreign' package for R.

###
###             Read SAS xport format libraries
###
### Copyright 1999-1999 Douglas M. Bates <bates$stat.wisc.edu>,
###                     Saikat DebRoy <saikat$stat.wisc.edu>
###
### This file is part of the `foreign' library for R and related languages.
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###
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lookup.xport <- function(file) .Call(xport_info, file)


read.xport <- function(file, ...) {
    data.info <- lookup.xport(file)
    ans <- .Call(xport_read, file, data.info)
    if (length(ans) == 1L) as.data.frame(ans[[1L]], ...)
    else lapply(ans, as.data.frame, ...)
}