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 -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 Lab cell 925-724-7509 On 11/30/17, 1:13 PM, "R-help on behalf of Jim Lemon" <r-help-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of drjimle...@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 <procconte...@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 . > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.