ENHANCED SAS SUPPORT

Value Labels can now be written directly to native Windows SAS catalog files (sas7cat)

Optional control over date, time and date-time formats used for writing.

All SAS date and time formats are recognized on reading.

Labels for SAS extended missing are now supported.

 

EXTENDED ATTRIBUTE SUPPORT

Variable- and File-level metadata are now supported for reading and writing from the following formats:

 

SAS (extended attributes)

Stata 15-16/MP

JMP (attributes)

Stata (characteristics)

ASCII – Stat/Transfer Schemas

 

FORMATS

Stat/Transfer Version 14 has added support for the following formats:

Stata 15//MP

BayesiaLab (Write Only)

JSON-Stat (Read Only)

 

LARGER LIMITS

Excel Files > 4 GB

SAS files > 32K variables

Stata Files > 32K variables

dBASE > 2GB

 

OTHER NEW FEATURES

Directory recursion is now available in the wildcard copy command

An extra variables can be created from the sheet name when combining worksheets

Extra string variables can be created from value labels when writing to delimited ASCII, described by a schema. These can then be read back in any format.

Much faster read of R files.

Postgres support in ODBC.