R help - Aug 2010 - help - read SAS into R

HI All,

How to read SAS data directly into R ?

Thank you

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maybe package foreign - all though I don't have any experience with this.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:25 PM, choonhong ang <angie.bearman at
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> How to read SAS data directly into R ?
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [R] help - read SAS into R
> 
> HI All,
> 
> How to read SAS data directly into R ?
> 
> Thank you
> 
You may or may not be able to depending on (1) what you mean by
"directly," (2) whether the "SAS data" is in a proprietary
SAS dataset format or in a portable transport format, and (3) whether you have
SAS available to run.  Depending on your answers to the above questions you have
the options of using the foreign package, Harrell's Hmisc package, the RODBC
package, and probably some others.  So, tell us about your particular situation,
data format, availability of SAS, OS, ....

Dan

Daniel J. Nordlund
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Planning, Performance, and Accountability
Research and Data Analysis Division
Olympia, WA 98504-5204

Looks like google has many suggestions.  I use
Hmisc package's sas.get function, but that requires that you
actually have SAS installed.  If you do have access
to SAS, I've found that to be the easiest.



choonhong ang wrote:
> HI All,
> 
> How to read SAS data directly into R ?
> 
> Thank you
> 
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On Aug 31, 2010, at 1:25 PM, choonhong ang wrote:
> HI All,
>
> How to read SAS data directly into R ?
If the data is in the transport format, then foreign::read.xport has  
worked well for me.

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