If you don't have SAS and still need to read or write sas7bdat files: there is the "World Programming System" (WPS) (commercial software). http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/home/ -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Reading-sas7bdat-files-directly-tp1469515p1557807.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.