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 (version 5 and version 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.
# The easiest way to get haven is to install the whole tidyverse:
install.packages("tidyverse")
# Alternatively, install just haven:
install.packages("haven")
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.