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0.8-92Package record

Read Data Stored by 'Minitab', 'S', 'SAS', 'SPSS', 'Stata', 'Systat', 'Weka', 'dBase', ...

54packages dependsuggested by 64
946.3Kdownloads / year
57.1%test coverage
13/13flavors OK

Overview

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Maintained by R Core TeamCRAN page ↗Repository ↗Issues ↗

Reading and writing data stored by some versions of 'Epi Info', 'Minitab', 'S', 'SAS', 'SPSS', 'Stata', 'Systat', 'Weka', and for reading and writing some 'dBase' files.

Install

Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64
Status changes
  • OK13 OK2026-09-12
  • NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-09-09
  • OK13 OK2026-08-05
  • NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
  • OK14 OK2026-03-10
Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8-91

Release 0.8-92 has not been analysed yet.

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
16
Examples that run
50%7 run in a plain check · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples
88%
Documented parameters
99%
Return-value docs
94%
Help pages citing references
75%
How these are measured

Downloads

946.3K
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #404 · ~2.6K/day · ~78.9K/mo
Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.
84.2K30 days
221.7K90 days
946.3K1 year
Compare downloads with other packages →
Also on83.2K r2u5.7K autocran387.3K conda_forge245 c2d4u
How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies
0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing foreign adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)
R >= 4.0.0
Imports (3)
methodsutilsstats
LinkingTo (0)
none
Suggests (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none
Dependency license breakdown →
Reverse dependencies
54direct
636indirect
Depends 8 · Imports 46
Suggested by 64
Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents
Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first
HmiscrioRcmdrMiscpsychToolsAmeliaepiDisplaykutilssynthpopshapefilesnhanesArdhsmicrodatasusvegdataintsvyPL94171weatherOznhdRDescToolsAddInsDeducersuperbRsagacmdeasyrpsidRbasifoRdynRBEffectLiteRR2MLwiNhealthbRaweSOMrsatscanRSPtaxlistnormfluodbfcofadRStataprevRSoficalmsseparationplotimportinegipkrfSRMeasyPSIDretistructfetchgesisdataconmetLOGAN

and 6 more dependents and 64 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (15)
R Core Team ROR
Author, Copyright holder, Maintainer · added in 0.8-50
Roger Bivand
Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.8-0
Vincent J. Carey
Contributor, Copyright holder
Saikat DebRoy
Contributor, Copyright holder
Stephen Eglen
Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.8-50
Rajarshi Guha
Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.8-50
Swetlana Herbrandt
Contributor · added in 0.8-69
Nicholas Lewin-Koh
Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.8-50
Mark Myatt
Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.8-50
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Michael Nelson
Contributor · added in 0.8-72
Ben Pfaff
Contributor · added in 0.8-50
Brian Quistorff
Contributor · added in 0.8-56
Frank Warmerdam
Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.8-50
Stephen Weigand
Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.8-50
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright holder · added in 0.8-50

Maintainer since 0.5-3 (2002), previously Saikat DebRoy (0.2-8 to 0.5-2)

Listed in earlier versions (8)
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Douglas M. Bates
no longer listed · 0.2-5 to 0.7
Thomas Lumley
no longer listed · 0.2-5 to 0.7
Duncan Murdoch
no longer listed · 0.4-3 to 0.7
R-core members
no longer listed · 0.8-0 to 0.8-46
others: see COPYRIGHTS file in the sources.
no longer listed · 0.8-0 to 0.8-46
R-core
no longer listed · 0.8-47 to 0.8-49
others
no longer listed · 0.8-47 to 0.8-49
Vincent J.
no longer listed · 0.8-50 to 0.8-91
Releases (128)

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Package metadata

First published
1999-12-17
Total releases
128 / 27 yrs
License
GPL (>= 2) OSI
Copyright
see file COPYRIGHTS
Minimum R
≥ 4.0.0
Download size
358 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("foreign")
R Core Team, Free Software Foundation, Inc., Bivand, R., Carey, V. J., DebRoy, S., Eglen, S., Guha, R., Herbrandt, S., Lewin-Koh, N., Myatt, M., Nelson, M., Pfaff, B., Quistorff, B., Warmerdam, F., & Weigand, S. (2026). foreign: Read Data Stored by 'Minitab', 'S', 'SAS', 'SPSS', 'Stata', 'Systat', 'Weka', 'dBase', ... (Version 0.8-92) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.foreign

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Cite the R Observatory

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for foreign version 0.8-92 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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