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asciiSetupReader

Reads Fixed-Width ASCII Data Files (.txt or .dat) that Have Accompanying Setup Files (.sps or .sas)

v2.5.3 · Sep 23, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Lets you open a fixed-width ASCII file (.txt or .dat) that has an accompanying setup file (.sps or .sas). These file combinations are sometimes referred to as .txt+.sps, .txt+.sas, .dat+.sps, or .dat+.sas. This will only run in a txt-sps or txt-sas pair in which the setup file contains instructions to open that text file. It will NOT open other text files, .sav, .sas, or .por data files. Fixed-width ASCII files with setup files are common in older (pre-2000) government data.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies data.table haven readr vroom stringr zoo shiny (>= 0.13) miniUI rstudioapi psidread asciiSetupReader

Version History

new 2.5.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.5.3 ← 2.5.2 diff Sep 22, 2025
updated 2.5.2 ← 2.5.1 diff Aug 16, 2024
updated 2.5.1 ← 2.4.0 diff Jul 4, 2023
updated 2.4.0 ← 2.3.2 diff Feb 2, 2021
updated 2.3.2 ← 2.3.1 diff Nov 27, 2020
updated 2.3.1 ← 2.3.0 diff Mar 20, 2020
updated 2.3.0 ← 2.2.0 diff Jan 18, 2020
updated 2.2.0 ← 2.1.0 diff Oct 7, 2019
updated 2.1.0 ← 2.0.1 diff Jun 27, 2019
updated 2.0.1 ← 2.0.0 diff Feb 4, 2019
updated 2.0.0 ← 1.4.0 diff Feb 3, 2019
updated 1.4.0 ← 1.2 diff Jun 17, 2018
updated 1.2 ← 1.1 diff Nov 25, 2017
updated 1.1 ← 1.0 diff Oct 10, 2017
new 1.0 Sep 6, 2017