As you already may have understood; yes, R can open SAS files. Here's 3 steps to open SAS files in R: 1) Install haven install.packages("haven") 2) Load the r-package haven: require(haven) 3) Open the SAS file read_sas(PATH_TO_YOUR_SAS7BDAT_FILE) Note, this assumes that R is already installed on your computer and read the post to get more information on how to read SAS files in R.