R in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

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This package provides functions for reading data stored by Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Systat, dBase, and so forth.

Functions

Function	Description
data.restore	Reads binary data files or data.dump files that were produced in S version 3.
lookup.xport	Scans a file as a SAS XPORT format library and returns a list containing information about the SAS library.
read.S	Reads binary data files or data.dump files that were produced in S version 3.
read.arff	Reads data from Weka Attribute-Relation File Format (ARFF) files.
read.dbf	Reads a DBF file into a data frame, converting character fields to factors and trying to respect NULL fields.
read.dta	Reads a file in Stata version 5–10 binary format into a data frame.
read.epiinfo	Reads data files in the .REC format used by Epi Info versions 6 and earlier and by EpiData. Epi Info is a public-domain database and statistics package produced by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and EpiData is a freely available data entry and validation system.
read.mtp	Returns a list with the data stored in a file as a Minitab portable worksheet.
read.octave	Reads a file in Octave text data format into a list.
read.spss	Reads a file stored by the SPSS save or export commands.
read.ssd	Generates a SAS program to convert the ssd contents to SAS transport format and then uses read.xport to obtain a data frame.
read.systat	Reads a rectangular data file stored by the Systat SAVE command as (legacy) *.sys or, more recently, *.syd files.
read.xport	Reads a file as a ...