The development version of the read.sas7bdat function (in the sas7bdat package) now reads field labels and formats. In addition, errors of the type “found <x> <type> subheaders where 1 expected” are now a thing of the past. These improvements are largely due to work by Clint Cummins. The function also works on some files generated […]
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Looking to hire data scientists
We are a global management consulting firm and are looking for data scientists in our team in New York/Washington DC and Gurgaon/Chennai (India). There are full-time and internship (New York) opportunities. There are multiple positions i…
Looking to hire data scientists
We are a global management consulting firm and are looking for data scientists in our team in New York/Washington DC and Gurgaon/Chennai (India). There are full-time and internship (New York) opportunities. There are multiple positions i…
Looking to hire data scientists
We’re looking for data scientists in our team in New York/Washington DC and Gurgaon/Chennai (India). There are full-time and internship (New York) opportunities. There are multiple positions including developing complex models in he…
tty Connection + sas7bdat: useR! 2011 Presentation Slides
Experimenting with a tty Connection for R I presented twice at this years useR!. The first was a regular talk on the tty connection patch for R. The talk went smoothly, despite a live demonstration using the DLP-232PC data acquisition module (datasheet). The slides for this presentation are here: shotwell-tty-useR-2011.pdf The image above is a […]
Coding, GUIs and Statistical Rituals
I was recently inspired to comment on this blog post, asking is R is a cure for ‘mindless statistics’. Anyone whose familiar with statistics used in applied fields like epidemiology, sociology, social sciences generally will be familiar with the idea of a ‘statistical ritual’. Rather than think about the proper statistical approach to every question, […]
SAS dataset declassified by Matt Shotwell
Matt Shotwell’s new R package ‘sas7bdat’ is a great achievement to bridge SAS and R. Earlier this year Revolution R, a commercial competitor against SAS, launched a RxSasData() function to read SAS’s unique ‘dataset’ data structure. Howev…
SAS dataset declassified by Matt Shotwell
Matt Shotwell’s new R package ‘sas7bdat’ is a great achievement to bridge SAS and R. Earlier this year Revolution R, a commercial competitor against SAS, launched a RxSasData() function to read SAS’s unique ‘sas7bdat’ data structure. Howe…