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openedon Aug 25, 2023
Thank you for making this awsome package!
While using haven
to read SAS7BDAT file, I found that haven
will not read the creation/modified time of the file. The rationale of getting these two timestamps is that these two timestamps stored in the metadata of a SAS7BDAT file are different from the timestamps read the OS.
And in ReadStat
, there are already two functions, readstat_get_creation_time
and readstat_get_modified_time
, which can be used to read the creation/modified time. But they are not exposed in haven
yet.
My proposal is that maybe we can add these two timestamps to the attribute of the output.
I forked haven
and have made a commit to add creation/modified time to the output's attribute here for you kind review. I compared the creation/modified time read by readstat_get_creation_time
and readstat_get_modified_time
and the creation/modified time obtained by PROC CONTENT
from my end. The result shows that they are identical.
If you find my implementation workable, I can make a pull request to haven
.
Thank you!
Jack