[R] How to import SAS data in R?

Marc Schwartz marc_schwartz at me.com
Fri Jul 6 19:30:28 CEST 2012


On Jul 6, 2012, at 12:11 PM, C W wrote:

> Hi all
> I have a large SAS data set, how do I get it read in R?
> 
> The data is too big (about 400,000 rows by 100 columns) to be saved as an
> Excel file.  How should I get it read in R?  Any packages?  I don't seem to
> find any.
> Thanks,
> Mike


Strangely enough, there is an entire manual on importing and exporting data to/from R:

  http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html

Several suggestions there for SAS in the relevant manual:

  http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.html#Importing-from-other-statistical-systems

Regards,

Marc Schwartz



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