[R] Fwd: Wanted to learn R Language

[MacQueen, Don]

And if you have trouble with read.export(), then another option is to use SAS to export the data to a text file, then load it into R using R's read.table() function.

I would suggest that the SAS export be to a tab-delimited file, with column headers, and no quotes around text fields, but there are other options.

Pay careful attention to the stringsAsFactors argument of read.table, and I would suggest setting it to FALSE at first, at least until you learn enough about factors in R to know when to use them, and when not.

-Don

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On 11/30/17, 1:13 PM, "R-help on behalf of Jim Lemon" <r-help-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi SAS_learner,
    Have a look at the read.xport function in the foreign package.
    
    Jim
    
    On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 7:50 AM, SAS_learner <proccontents at gmail.com> wrote:
    > Hello all ,
    >
    > I am a SAS user for a while and wanted to learn to program in R . My
    > biggest hurdle to start, is to get the data (I work in clinical domain
    > ) that too inside VPN secured access. The only way I can learn during
    > my work time is create my own data frames and create programs that can
    > be used for data ( either SDTM or AdAM data ) validation or checking
    > Table counts . For this I need to imitate the clinical data structure
    > . If there is any place or a package that help to start. I have couple
    > of dummy SAS datasets in my work area , but not sure how can I can
    > access them . Can anybody help me . Thanks ahead .
    >
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