readSAS {RcmdrMisc}

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