INSTALL read_stat FROM community;
LOAD read_stat;

-- Read a SAS `.sas7bdat` or `.xpt` file
FROM read_stat('sas_data.sas7bdat');
FROM read_stat('sas_data.xpt');
-- Read an SPSS `.sav`, `.zsav`, or `.por` file
FROM read_stat('spss_data.sav');
FROM read_stat('compressed_spss_data.zsav');
FROM read_stat('portable_spss_data.por');
-- Read a Stata .dta file
FROM read_stat('stata_data.dta');

-- If the file extension is not `.sas7bdat`, `.xpt`, `.sav`, `.zsav`, `.por`, or `.dta`,
-- use the `read_stat` function for the right file type with the `format` parameter:
FROM read_stat('sas_data.other_extension', format = 'sas7bdat');
FROM read_stat('sas_data.other_extension', format = 'xpt');
-- SPSS `.sav` and `.zsav` can both be read through the format `'sav'`
FROM read_stat(
    'spss_data_possibly_compressed.other_extension',
    format = 'sav'
);
FROM read_stat('portable_spss_data.other_extension', format = 'por');
FROM read_stat('stata_data.other_extension', format = 'dta');

-- Override the character encoding with an `iconv`` encoding name,
-- see https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
CREATE TABLE other_data AS FROM read_stat('latin1_encoded.sas7bdat', encoding = 'iso-8859-1');