read.xport {foreign}R Documentation

Read a SAS XPORT format library

Description

Reads a file as a SAS XPORT format library and returns a list of data.frames

Usage

read.xport(file)

Arguments

file character variable with the name of the file to read. The file must be in SAS XPORT format.

Value

A list with one component for each dataset in the XPORT format library.

Warning

The value returned is wrong on big endian machines.

Author(s)

Saikat DebRoy

References

SAS Technical Support document TS-140 : "The Record Layout of a Data Set in SAS Transport (XPORT) Format" available as http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote/ts140.html

See Also

read.xport

Examples


read.xport("transport")