Read SEER Columns from SAS file

Source: R/read.R

Reads the SEER column specification from the SAS import file.

seer_read_col_positions(file = "https://seer.cancer.gov/manuals/read.seer.research.nov2017.sas",
  raw = FALSE, use_col_desc = FALSE)

Arguments

file

Path to read.seer.research.sas file.
use_col_desc

Should the column description be used for the column names? If FALSE (default), column descriptions are added as variable labels using labelled::var_label().

Examples

seer_col_pos <- seer_read_col_positions()
head(seer_col_pos)
#> # A tibble: 6 x 4
#>   begin   end col_names col_labels                 
#>   <dbl> <dbl> <chr>     <chr>                      
#> 1     0     8 PUBCSNUM  Patient ID                 
#> 2     8    18 REG       SEER registry              
#> 3    18    19 MAR_STAT  Marital status at diagnosis
#> 4    19    21 RACE1V    Race/ethnicity             
#> 5    22    23 NHIADE    NHIA Derived Hisp Origin   
#> 6    23    24 SEX       Sex