Cannot Read Big Endian Files

[billdenney]

I have a file that I received which is a big-endian sas7bdat file. When I try to read it with read.sas7bdat, I get this error:

Error in read.sas7bdat(file.path(datadir, "myfile.sas7bdat")) : 
  big endian files are not supported

Is there any plan to support reading big endian files?

[BioStatMatt]

It is possible, but not yet implemented. Have you tried sas7bdat.parso or
the haven packages for R?

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Bill Denney notifications@github.com
wrote:

I have a file that I received which is a big-endian sas7bdat file. When I
try to read it with read.sas7bdat, I get this error:

Error in read.sas7bdat(file.path(datadir, "myfile.sas7bdat")) :
big endian files are not supported

Is there any plan to support reading big endian files?

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[billdenney]

After trying this, I found that both sas7bdat.parso and the development version of haven (not the version on CRAN right now) can open my files.

Maybe a helper to other users could be to make error messages in read.sas7bdat point the user to those other packages?