I guess it also does some stats’ stuff, but as mentioned I already have R for that. AM Statistical Software can be downloaded for free from the American Institutes for Research at: The internet has free stuff, and I am very pleased to let you know there is a free alternative to STAT/Transfer to finally get rid of those old SAS files and change them to alternative Excel/STATA/etc data files. They do have a demo, but this only transfers a random sample of the data which, in my book, is pretty useless. But surprise, STAT/Transfer costs money as well. STAT/Transfer used to do that trick very well. So now I don’t have SAS, but I do have the occasional SAS file that needs transferring so it can be used in R. Fair enough….but SAS is not cheap, which prompted me (and likely others) to switch to something else. As a result, apparently their source code is a big secret and transfer to other formats is difficult. Unfortunately, the people at the SAS Institute do not very much like these procedures and prefer that everyone uses their program. This is not so much of a problem for most types of data, since they can be imported in other programs as well. If you have been working with datasets you, at some point along the way, must have been stuck with the wrong data format.
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