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Overview

Haven enables R to read and write various data formats used by other
statistical packages by wrapping the fantastic
ReadStat C library written by
Evan Miller. Haven is part of the
tidyverse. Currently it supports:

• SAS: read_sas() reads .sas7bdat + .sas7bcat files and
  read_xpt() reads SAS transport files (versions 5 and 8).
  write_xpt() writes SAS transport files (versions 5 and 8).

• SPSS: read_sav() reads .sav files and read_por() reads the
  older .por files. write_sav() writes .sav files.

• Stata: read_dta() reads .dta files (up to version 15).
  write_dta() writes .dta files (versions 8-15).

The output objects:

• Are tibbles, which have a
  better print method for very long and very wide files.

• Translate value labels into a new labelled() class, which preserves
  the original semantics and can easily be coerced to factors with
  as_factor(). Special missing values are preserved. See
  vignette("semantics") for more details.

• Dates and times are converted to R date/time classes. Character
  vectors are not converted to factors.

Installation

# The easiest way to get haven is to install the whole tidyverse:
install.packages("tidyverse")
# Alternatively, install just haven:
install.packages("haven")

Usage

library(haven)
# SAS
read_sas("mtcars.sas7bdat")
write_xpt(mtcars, "mtcars.xpt")
# SPSS
read_sav("mtcars.sav")
write_sav(mtcars, "mtcars.sav")
# Stata
read_dta("mtcars.dta")
write_dta(mtcars, "mtcars.dta")

Related work

• foreign reads from SAS
  XPORT, SPSS, and Stata (up to version 12) files.

• readstat13 reads
  from and writes to all Stata file format versions.

• sas7bdat reads from
  SAS7BDAT files.

Code of Conduct

Please note that the haven project is released with a Contributor Code
of Conduct. By
contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.