[R] export to a dat file that SAS can read

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Uwe Ligges wrote:
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> Rina Miehs wrote:
>> Hello
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>> i have a data frame in R that some SAS users need to use in their
>> programs, and they want it in a dat file, is that possible?
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> What is a "dat" file?
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>> and which functions to use for that?
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> I *guess* write.table() will do the trick, given "dat" is what I guess
> it is...

Another approach (that preserves factor levels if you have them) is to use 
write.foreign in the 'foreign' package. This writes a text file for the 
data and also writes SAS code to read the file.

 	-thomas