Loading SAS data

Using the haven package to load SAS data: Reading supports both sas7bdat and xpt files.

IQRloadSASdata(
  data_file,
  as.data.frame = TRUE,
  noLabels = TRUE,
  replaceComma = TRUE,
  encoding = NULL
)

Arguments

data_file

Path to the sas7bdat or xpt data file.

as.data.frame

Logical. If TRUE a data.frame is returned.

noLabels

Logical. If TRUE label attributes are removed.

replaceComma

If TRUE the "," is exchanged for " " - otherwise not.

encoding

Sets the encoding (e.g. "UTF-8"): a value of NULL uses the encoding specified in the file. Use this argument to override it if it is incorrect. Ignored for .xpt files.

Value

data frame Variable labels are stored in the "label" attribute of each variable. It is not printed on the console, but the RStudio viewer will show it.

Details

Some arguments from haven::read_sas are disabled on purpose as there are till bugs with them ... for now only use it for importing SAS files :)

Removing "," in character columns by default (can be switched off)

See also

Other SAS: getLabels_dataframe(), unlabel_dataframe()