sas_from_r: Convert R table to SAS

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Convert R table to SAS

Description

Converts R table into a table in the current SAS session. R tables must only have logical, integer, double, factor, character, POSIXct, or Date class columns.

Usage

sas_from_r(x, table_name, libref = "WORK", factors_as_strings = TRUE)

Arguments

x	data.frame; R table.
table_name	string; Name of table to be created in SAS.
libref	string; Name of libref to store SAS table within.
factors_as_strings	logical; If TRUE, factors will become SAS strings. Else, factors will become formatted numerics.

Details

SAS only has two data types (numeric and character). Data types are converted as follows:

• logical -> numeric

• integer -> numeric

• double -> numeric

• factor -> character

• character -> character

• POSIXct -> numeric (datetime; timezones are lost)

• Date -> numeric (date)

Value

data.frame; x.

See Also

sas_to_r()

Examples

sas_connect()

sas_from_r(mtcars, "mtcars")

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