January 2010
Beginner
634 pages
19h 50m
English
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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 ... |
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