Is there a way to load rda/RData data from R into SAS?

Question

I have plenty of .rda and .RData files from R statistical packageand would like to read them into SAS. Is there an (easy) way to do this?

Answer 1

If you can get R installed, then you could execute R code within PROC IML (assuming your SAS installation is configured properly, which can be a problem), read the results into e.g. a R data.frame and get the results back as described in the SAS documentation examples. If you do not have the SAS/IML license but have R, write the output out from R into some format SAS reads easily (e.g. csv). If you cannot get R installed on your system, can someone else with R installed do that for you?

Otherwise, you may have to write a SAS program that can parse the RData format. However, that would be a measure of desperation. I believe you would find the documentation of the format here and some discussion of the not so clear documentation here (see also)