How to convert sas7bdat file to csv?

Question

I want to convert a .sas7bdat file to a .csv/txt format so that I can upload it into a hive table. I'm receiving the .sas7bdat file from an outside server and do not have SAS on my machine.

Answer 1

Use one of the R foreign packages to read the file and then convert to CSV with that tool.

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.pdf Pg 12

Using the SAS7BDAT package instead. It appears to ignore custom formatted, reading the underlying data.

In SAS:

proc format;
value agegrp
   low - 12 = 'Pre Teen'
   13 -15 = 'Teen'
   16 - high = 'Driver';
run;

libname test 'Z:\Consulting\SAS Programs';

data test.class;
set sashelp.class;
age2=age;
format age2 agegrp.;
run;

In R:

 install.packages(sas7bdat)
 library(sas7bdat)
 x<-read.sas7bdat("class.sas7bdat", debug=TRUE)
 x