I had the same idea, but didn't get anywhere near as far. But I did write some code for converting the IBM float format: https://gist.github.com/simonbyrne/5443843
On Friday, 27 March 2015 22:46:11 UTC+1, Sam L wrote: > > I actually started writing a package to do this as a way to learn Julia. > https://github.com/lendle/XPT.jl. It was the first thing I did in Julia, > so the code is probably not great. I never fully tested it, and I haven't > touched it in a year so who knows if it will work with current versions of > packages. I abandoned it because I saw that someone else was working on a > much more complete package which wrapped a library that they had written to > handle SAS data sets and other systems as well. Of course I don't remember > what that was called, and can't find that anywhere... > > On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 2:18:42 PM UTC-7, Jacob Quinn wrote: >> >> I used [this](http://support.sas.com/downloads/package.htm?pid=667) last >> fall when I needed to convert some SAS files. It's Windows only, but got >> the job done. >> >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:53 PM, jorttx <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is anyone working on the ability for Julia to import SAS datasets >>> (*.sas7bdat files) as has been done for R ? Julia looks great, but most of >>> the data I need to work with originates in SAS. >>> >> >>
