[R] Reading sas7bdat files directly

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Chris Long wrote:
> I suppose a link would have added usefulness:
> 
> http://www.oview.co.uk/dsread
> 
> Chris.

As dsread seems to work perfectly under wine on Ubuntu linux (and quite 
quickly), it could be quite valuable to many of us.  Thanks for posting 
this and for developing dsread!  If time allows I'll write a function to 
add to the Hmisc package that runs dsread to output the SAS dataset 
metadata, then runs dsread again to read the data, adding back metadata 
such as variable labels.
Frank

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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chairman        School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University