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lookup.xport

Lookup Information on a SAS XPORT Format Library

Description

Scans a file as a SAS XPORT format library and returns a list containing information about the SAS library.

Usage

lookup.xport(file)

Arguments

file

character variable with the name of the file to read. The file must be in SAS XPORT format.

Value

A list with one component for each dataset in the XPORT format library.

Author(s)

Saikat DebRoy

References

SAS Technical Support document TS-140: “The Record Layout of a Data Set in SAS Transport (XPORT) Format” available as https://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts140.pdf.

See Also

Examples

## Not run: ## no XPORT file is installed.
lookup.xport("test.xpt")

## End(Not run)
foreign

Read Data Stored by 'Minitab', 'S', 'SAS', 'SPSS', 'Stata', 'Systat', 'Weka', 'dBase', ...

v0.8-81
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
R Core Team [aut, cph, cre], Roger Bivand [ctb, cph], Vincent J. Carey [ctb, cph], Saikat DebRoy [ctb, cph], Stephen Eglen [ctb, cph], Rajarshi Guha [ctb, cph], Swetlana Herbrandt [ctb], Nicholas Lewin-Koh [ctb, cph], Mark Myatt [ctb, cph], Michael Nelson [ctb], Ben Pfaff [ctb], Brian Quistorff [ctb], Frank Warmerdam [ctb, cph], Stephen Weigand [ctb, cph], Free Software Foundation, Inc. [cph]
Initial release
2020-12-22

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