SEER_read_fwf

A simple script to help R users read the SEER ASCII files.

The gist:

• The script reads the contents of a SAS script from the SEER website.
• The SAS script is scraped for:
  • The field names, descriptions, start positions and widths.
• A local file is read with these field positions and names resulting in a tibble.

Usage

This is a template, not a package or a function ready to use. To use this script to load one SEER ASCII .txt file:

• Change the file_path = <path> line 31, and
• Run it!

Requirements

• R
• tidyverse