In this post, we are going to learn how to read SAS (. sas7bdat) files in R. More specifically, we are going to use the packages haven, and sas7bdat. Furthermore, we will also learn how to load .sas7bdat files into R using RStudio.
If you are interested in other methods on how to import data in R:
In this post, we are going to learn how to read SAS (.sas7bdat) files in Python.
As previously described (in the read .sav files in Python post) Python is a general-purpose language that also can be used for doing data analysis and data visualization.
One potential downside, however, is that Python is not really user-friendly for data storage. This has, of course, lead to that our data many times are stored using Excel, SPSS, SAS, or similar software. See, for instance, the posts about reading .sav, .dta, and .xlxs files in Python:
In this post, we are going to learn 1) how to read SPSS (.sav) files in Python, and 2) how to write to SPSS (.sav) files using Python.
Python is a great general-purpose language as well as for carrying out statistical analysis and data visualization. However, Python is not really user-friendly when it comes to data storage. Thus, often our data will be archived using Excel, SPSS or similar software.
For example, learn how to import data from other file types, such as Excel, SPSS, and Stata in the following two posts:
If we ever need to learn how to read a file in Python in other formats, such a text file, it is doable. To read a file in Python without any libraries we just use the open() method.
