rforeign
rforeign is a software package associated with the R programming language that provides facilities for importing data from other statistical packages and file formats into R. It emerged as part of the effort to bridge data stored outside R with R-based analysis, enabling users to work with datasets created in environments such as SPSS, Stata, SAS, and related formats.
The package focuses on reading a variety of formats commonly used in social sciences and related fields.
In the broader history of R data import, rforeign is often discussed alongside the official foreign package
Usage typically involves installing the package from a distribution repository and using its functions to read