[R] How to import SAS data in R?
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 19:24:53 CEST 2012
On 06/07/2012 1:11 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.
You could write it out in some plain delimited format, e.g. CSV or
tab-delimited. Watch out for special characters in strings that confuse
R when it reads it in (e.g. commas in unquoted CSV strings, quotes
within strings, etc.)
Duncan Murdoch
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