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Is there a way to import SAS7BDAT files to Stata without SAS? usesas requires SAS.

Nick Cox
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Tabi
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    Not sure why this is downvoted. I know someone have made a SAS table viewer in PowerShell, guess that could be rewritten to export to CSV instead. – Stig Eide Nov 04 '14 at 11:39
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    what code do you want? if i knew the code i wouldn't ask the question. i did a research- that's why i wrote about usesas! it was a solution that did not work for me. – Tabi Nov 04 '14 at 13:03
  • I am guessing at why you were downvoted; I have no way of knowing 5 individual reasons from 5 people (to date). Please don't shoot at the journalist. The larger point is that this is a programming forum, so many members feel that questions without code don't belong here at all, as they are about how to use software, not how to write programs. – Nick Cox Nov 04 '14 at 14:13

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Answering myself:

You can import SAS file to R using sas7bdat library, and from R import to Stata.

import to R:

 install.packages("sas7bdat")
 library("sas7bdat")
 data = read.sas7bdat("file_name.sas7bdat")

save dta file:

 library(foreign)
 write.dta(data, "stata_file_name.dta")
Tabi
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This blog describes how to export a SAS dataset using PowerShell

Stig Eide
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SAS Universal Viewer (freely available from SAS website) allows exporting to csv files if I'm not mistaken. Then importing the csv file from Stata should be straightforward enough.

Dominic Comtois
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