In this video we will introduce some of the most important packages and functions for importing non-plain text data files. Here we concentrate on importing SAS data sets, which can be done by reading the data set in transport format via read.xport() from the foreign package, or, more conveniently, by reading a .sas7bdat file via the read_sas() function from the haven package. In this video we show how to create a transport format version of a SAS data set and how to read it into R, and illustrate the use of read_sas() to read .sas7bdat files.

Reading SAS data sets into R is an essential skill for this class, so I strongly urge you to watch this video.