Readstat not reading XPT v8 column names correctly

[ofajardo]

When trying to read the attached XPT file v8 readstat is not reading the column names correctly.

This is what readstat is reading (only first row included for brevity)

./readstat dates_8.xpt -
"dt","dt","timezone","dates","string_dates","times","string_times","seconds","seconds"
-86401.000000,"1959-12-30 23:59:59","UTC",-2.000000,"1959-12-30",86399.000000,"23:59:59",-86401.000000,1.000000

and it should be:

'dt', 'string_dt', 'timezone', 'dates', 'string_dates', 'times', 'string_times', 'seconds', 'missings'

@reikoch is aware of the issue, according to him this comes from the fact the XPT has labels.
The XPT files was originated from a sas7bdat files also attached.

dates.zip

[ofajardo]

Another detail:

• If reading the sas7bdat with readstat, then saving it to a XPT v8 with readstat, the file can be read again with readstat (and also SAS and all is OK).
• If saving it to a XPT v5, then a similar issue as described before is seen, in this case however we have string_d twice because of truncation of variable names (string_dt and string_dates)

"dt","string_d","timezone","dates","string_d","times","string_t","seconds","missings"

[evanmiller]

Try this 6122c01

[ofajardo]

it works!

thanks!

[evanmiller]

@ofajardo Thanks for letting me know. I have put together a release candidate with all of the latest changes:

https://github.com/WizardMac/ReadStat/releases/tag/v1.1.4-rc0

If everything looks okay I will make an official release in a week or so.

[ofajardo]

Great, thanks!