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KieranPC
KieranPC

Reputation: 9095

Is there intention to build a read_sas7bdat() function in pandas?

Many companies, including my own, use SAS for data management. Therefore many of the data analysis/manipulation tools are built in SAS as well, working with sas7bdat files. These could be progressively replaced by Python tools.

Pandas 'read_sas7bdat()' and 'to_sas7bdat()' functions would really help in this transition. Is there the intention to build this in coming milestones? I mean specifically in pandas, not a separate sas7bdat package.

Thanks,

Upvotes: 0

Views: 181

Answers (1)

Roger Fan
Roger Fan

Reputation: 5045

This is the github issue related to adding sas import functions. If you scroll to the end you can see that it's a continuing conversation. To summarize the last couple posts, there are no near-term plans, but an experimental R implementation suggest that someday it might happen.

In the meantime, the best way to link the two is probably through exporting CSV files.

Upvotes: 1

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