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asciiSetupReader 2.1.0

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

Released Jun 28, 2019 by Jacob Kaplan

This package cannot yet be used with Renjin it depends on other packages which are not available: data.table 1.12.2 and haven 2.1.0

Dependencies

haven 2.1.0 data.table 1.12.2 readr 1.3.1 stringr 1.4.0 zoo 1.8-6

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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