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Kris
Kris

Reputation: 13

Reading SAS datasets R sas7bdat package

When reading data sets with 0 or 1 rows into R both show nrow of 1. I need to use the condition to filter out empty data sets in my program. Any idea why the package reads empty SAS data sets with nrow = 1?

Thanks in advance.

Regards K

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2166

Answers (1)

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 51566

Do you have to use the sas7bdat package? Can you use haven instead?

> library("haven")
> read_sas("c:/downloads/empty.sas7bdat")
# A tibble: 0 x 5
# ... with 5 variables: Name <chr>, Sex <chr>, Age <dbl>, Height <dbl>, Weight <dbl>
> read_sas("c:/downloads/one.sas7bdat")
# A tibble: 1 x 5
  Name   Sex     Age Height Weight
  <chr>  <chr> <dbl>  <dbl>  <dbl>
1 Alfred M      14.0   69.0    112
>

Upvotes: 2

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