[R] Import selected columns from sas7bdat file

[Anthony Damico]

hi, the sas universal viewer might be a free, non-R way to convert a
sas7bdat file to non-proprietary formats, not sure if it's windows-only.
those other formats should be easier to import only a subset of columns
into R..

https://support.sas.com/downloads/browse.htm?fil=&cat=74

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 7:42 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had a look at this a while back and it didn't seem to be easy. The path
> of least resistance would seem to be to use SAS itself to create a data set
> with fewer columns, but of course that requires you to get access to SAS.
>
> Otherwise, I think you'd have to modify sas7bdat::read.sas7bdat to drop
> unselected columns. That function is pure R code, so it might not be quite
> as hard as it sounds.
>
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>
> -pd
>
>
> > On 10 Aug 2017, at 12:24 , Utkarsh Singhal <utkarsh.iit at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I want to import data from huge sas files with 100s of columns. The good
> > thing is that I am only interested in a few selected columns. Is there
> any
> > way to do that without loading the full dataset.
> >
> > I have tried two functions: (1) read.sas7bdat *[from library
> 'sas7bdat']*,
> > and (2) read_sas *[from library 'haven']. *But couldn't find what I am
> > looking for.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Utkarsh Singhal
> > 91.96508.54333
> >
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