Read SAS data into R (SAS is required)

Those 3 ways can read SAS data into R. I prefer the first method since it gives the most choice to control.

### To read SAS data into R(SAS is necessary)

##1: first use SAS to export data to csv or dlm, then use R

libname test "/data/temp/hsong/test";

proc export data=test.hsb12 outfile="/data/temp/hsong/test/sasxport" dbms=dlm replace;

        delimiter=",";

run; 

# Then read in the exported data with R

read.table("/data/temp/hsong/test/sasxport", header=T)

##2: to read in with the package {Hmisc}

library(Hmisc) 

hsb12=sas.get(lib="/data/temp/hsong/test", mem="hsb12", as.is=T)

##3: read with library {foreign}, but I did not run it successfully

read.xport("path")