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`haven::read_sas` generates some message

Hi @Longfei2, thanks for the bug report. Can you please provide a minimal reprex (*repr*oducible *ex*ample)? The goal of a reprex is to make it as easy as possible for...

Allowing two kinds of missing values (kept and not in regressions) and handling labelled variables both as numeric and character

Hi @bixiou, can you please explain what feature you are requesting in detail, including why this would be helpful and examples of the desired behaviour? This should all be included...

Allowing two kinds of missing values (kept and not in regressions) and handling labelled variables both as numeric and character

Hi @bixiou, This is well out of the scope of haven. This package is intended as a too to load files from statistical packages and brings in related metadata as...

read_sas() bug with SAS formats

Confirming that this was fixed in #777!

Breaking change: <haven_labelled> objects no longer support arithmetic — destroys reproducibility and punishes labelled workflows

Hi @nickharrigan, appreciate that this is important to you but this is not a bug we were aware of until now so there has been no opportunity to fix it....

Add support for `e8601dn` and `b8601dn` SAS formats

Hey @gowerc, No worries, this is a super easy update to make! Although these formats only display the date in SAS they do contain the time component as well, so...

Add support for infinity values from sas7bdat files

Hi @gowerc, You can access the underlying tagged NA value using the [`tagged_na()` functions](https://haven.tidyverse.org/reference/tagged_na.html). To check for a particular value you can use for e.g. `is_tagged_na(var, "i")` (note that all...

haven::write_xpt() produces malformed LABELV8 header for long variable labels (incompatible with SAS)

Thanks for the report! I've submitted a PR with a fix over at WizardMac/ReadStat#349

write_sas() deprecation timeline

There's no set timeline currently, it will probably still hang around at the warning level for a little while (there's no rush towards hard deprecation).