Message-ID: <ED0A4DCB-B5C0-4723-9781-71107C3E323C@me.com>
Date: 2012-07-06T17:30:28Z
From: Marc Schwartz
Subject: How to import SAS data in R?
In-Reply-To: <CAE2FW2nEctqRu2LVW8fr5E4POqk17hxePXb2LsGyQEtiiXZZ3A@mail.gmail.com>
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