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.

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")