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Cannot Read Big Endian Files
I have a file that I received which is a big-endian sas7bdat file. When I try to read it with read.sas7bdat, I get this error:
Error in read.sas7bdat(file.path(datadir, "myfile.sas7bdat")) :
big endian files are not supported
Is there any plan to support reading big endian files?
It is possible, but not yet implemented. Have you tried sas7bdat.parso or the haven packages for R?
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Bill Denney [email protected] wrote:
I have a file that I received which is a big-endian sas7bdat file. When I try to read it with read.sas7bdat, I get this error:
Error in read.sas7bdat(file.path(datadir, "myfile.sas7bdat")) : big endian files are not supported
Is there any plan to support reading big endian files?
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After trying this, I found that both sas7bdat.parso and the development version of haven (not the version on CRAN right now) can open my files.
Maybe a helper to other users could be to make error messages in read.sas7bdat point the user to those other packages?