# Read a statistics package file

Acquire / file

A variant of [Read another file format](https://meridian.online/operations/read-another-file-format).

Read a data file saved by a statistics package, such as SAS, SPSS, Stata or R, into a table.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/read-another-file-format/read-a-statistics-package-file>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#read-another-file-format)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- EasyMorph: [`Import SAS file`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:importsas) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Import SPSS file`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:importspss) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`SAS input`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/sasinput.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`KNIME SAS7BDAT Reader (extension)`](https://api.hub.knime.com/extensions/org.knime.features.ext.parso) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`PC-Axis (PX)`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/starting#create-a-project-by-importing-data) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`SAS Input`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Power Query M: [`RData.FromBinary`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/accessing-data-functions) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Read SAS`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/data_access/files/read/sas_reader.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Read SPSS`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/data_access/files/read/read_spss.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Read Stata`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/data_access/files/read/read_stata.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- VisiData: [`dta (loader)`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/loaders/_pandas.py#L10) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`sas7bdat (loader)`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/loaders/sas.py#L15) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`spss (loader)`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/loaders/spss.py#L5) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`xpt (loader)`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/loaders/sas.py#L11) (read 2026-09-23)