R Observatory: Metrics for sas7bdat version 0.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sas7bdat

0.8Package record

sas7bdat Reverse Engineering Documentation

0packages dependsuggested by 1

22Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matt ShotwellCRAN page ↗

Documentation and prototypes for the earliest (circa 2010) open-source effort to reverse engineer the sas7bdat file format. The package includes a prototype reader for sas7bdat files. However, newer packages may contain more robust readers for sas7bdat files.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("sas7bdat", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-sas7bdat

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-sas7bdat

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-sas7bdat

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
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

READMEYes · 89 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 50%1 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

Vignettes (1)

sas7bdat PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

22K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,948 · ~60/day · ~1.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3K30 days

4.8K90 days

22K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on159 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sas7bdat adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

causaldrf

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Matt Shotwell

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2011)

Clint Cummins

Contributor · added in 0.6

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Matthew S. Shotwell

no longer listed · 0.3

Releases (8)

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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13

Package metadata

First published: 2011-06-15
Total releases: 8 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 6.8 KB / 1 file
Download size: 202 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sas7bdat")

Format

Shotwell, M., & Cummins, C. (2024). sas7bdat: sas7bdat Reverse Engineering Documentation (Version 0.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sas7bdat

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sas7bdat version 0.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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