These files are hopelessly mangled. I've extracted the data and put them here https://github.com/dilawar/data/tree/master/IndianDistrictDatabase/original . Most entries have 5 columns but some are one column and two columns.
You can search for this site snapshots on the internet archive and if you are lucky, some old snapshots might have the currently missing SAS files. The last time I tried, their search engine was having issues: https://archive.org/search.php?query=http%3A%2F%2Fvanneman.umd.edu%2Fdistricts%2Ffiles%2Findex.html -- Dilawar Singh, Ph.D. LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilawar-singh-ph-d-44b81b194/> ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4645-3211> Github <https://github.com/dilawar> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 8:40 AM Eduardo Campillo Betancourt < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Have any of you successfully read the .data files in the Indian Districts > Database (http://vanneman.umd.edu/districts/files/index.html)? I tried > reading them in R as ASCII and elsewhere as text files or tab separated > files and all I got was a single column of about 150K rows with what looked > like the data but with no sense of which column corresponds to which > variable. Also, the SAS command files are not available (links broken). > > Thank you in advance! > > Best, > Eduardo > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/5566c50b-9009-4bd9-a0a5-22b0247e2d6bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/5566c50b-9009-4bd9-a0a5-22b0247e2d6bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAM72-Zu1QzqJ5hD4TrULhrsnNhScVE3hMm%2BqbR-n%2BHUqvK0U-g%40mail.gmail.com.
