asciiSetupReader: Reads Fixed-Width ASCII Data Files (.txt or .dat) that Have Accompanying Setup Files (.sps or .sas)

Lets you open a fixed-width ASCII file (.txt or .dat) that has an accompanying setup file (.sps or .sas). These file combinations are sometimes referred to as .txt+.sps, .txt+.sas, .dat+.sps, or .dat+.sas. This will only run in a txt-sps or txt-sas pair in which the setup file contains instructions to open that text file. It will NOT open other text files, .sav, .sas, or .por data files. Fixed-width ASCII files with setup files are common in older (pre-2000) government data.

Version:	2.5.3
Depends:	R (≥ 3.1.0)
Imports:	data.table, haven, readr, vroom, stringr, zoo, shiny (≥ 0.13), miniUI (≥ 0.1.1), rstudioapi (≥ 0.5)
Suggests:	covr, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 2.1.0)
Published:	2025-09-23
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.asciiSetupReader
Author:	Jacob Kaplan [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Jacob Kaplan <jkkaplan6 at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/jacobkap/asciiSetupReader/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/jacobkap/asciiSetupReader
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	asciiSetupReader results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	asciiSetupReader.html , asciiSetupReader.pdf
Vignettes:	Introduction to asciiSetupReader (source, R code) Making an .sps file (source, R code) Parsing an .sps or .sas file (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	asciiSetupReader_2.5.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: asciiSetupReader_2.5.3.zip, r-release: asciiSetupReader_2.5.3.zip, r-oldrel: asciiSetupReader_2.5.3.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): asciiSetupReader_2.5.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): asciiSetupReader_2.5.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): asciiSetupReader_2.5.3.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): asciiSetupReader_2.5.3.tgz
Old sources:	asciiSetupReader archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:

psidread

Linking:

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