read.sas7bdat: SAS Database Reader (experimental)

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SAS Database Reader (experimental)

Description

Read SAS files in the sas7bdat data format.

Usage

read.sas7bdat(file, encoding="", debug=FALSE)

Arguments

file	character: Path to a file or an URL.
encoding	character: Character encoding for strings
debug	logical: Save function environment as attribute of returned object.

Value

A data frame corresponding to the SAS database. The returned data frame has an column.info attribute and other attributes that contain 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')).

Author(s)

Matt Shotwell

References

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

Examples

## see \code{data(sas7bdat.sources)}

sas7bdat documentation built on Sept. 11, 2024, 7:07 p.m.