SAS dataset (.sas7bdat) label. Please retain it with read_sas()

[ghost]

Dear developer,

When SAS dataset (.sas7bdat) has a label then it is not preserved while using read_sas(). Could you please add this feature to retain dataset label? I attached the dataset and I had to change the extension to .txt otherwise GitHub won't attach. Please change the extension to .sas7bdat for your testing.

data1.txt

/*example in SAS*/


data OUTDATA.data1 (label='This is a data1 label');
 x=1;
 run;
 
data OUTDATA.data2 (label='This is a data2 label');
 x=1;
 run;

proc sql noprint;
   create table labels as
   select memname, memlabel
   from dictionary.tables
   where libname='OUTDATA'
   ;
run;

proc print data = labels;
run;

/*the output is*/
/*
             Obs    MEMNAME              MEMLABEL

                 1     DATA1          This is a data1 label
                 2     DATA2          This is a data2 label           

*/

# when reading with haven::read_sas() the dataset label is gone. the dataset data1.sas7bdat is attached

zz <- haven::read_sas("/entimice/data1.sas7bdat")
str(zz)

# The output is 
# > zz <- haven::read_sas("/entimice/data1.sas7bdat") 
# > str(zz) 
# Classes ‘tbl_df’, ‘tbl’ and 'data.frame':	1 obs. of  1 variable:  
# $ X: num 1  - attr(*, "label")= chr "DATA1"

[evanmiller]

This is being worked on, see here: WizardMac/ReadStat#213