diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index aa58e38bb..e1f3f6c45 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -48,5 +48,5 @@ matrix_client       # matrix API
 zulip               # zulip API
 pyairtable          # airtable API
 
--e git+https://github.com/saulpw/pyxlsb.git@visidata#egg=pyxlsb # xlsb
--e git+https://github.com/anjakefala/savReaderWriter     # sav (SPSS)
+-e git+https://github.com/saulpw/pyxlsb.git@visidata#egg=pyxlsb                 # xlsb
+-e git+https://github.com/anjakefala/savReaderWriter#egg=savReaderWriter        # sav (SPSS)
diff --git a/sample_data/accidents.sav b/sample_data/accidents.sav
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..10206b765
Binary files /dev/null and b/sample_data/accidents.sav differ
diff --git a/tests/golden/load-sav.tsv b/tests/golden/load-sav.tsv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8ee1bde01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/golden/load-sav.tsv
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+agecat	gender	accid	pop
+1.00	1.00	57997.00	198522.00
+2.00	1.00	57113.00	203200.00
+3.00	1.00	54123.00	200744.00
+1.00	0.00	63936.00	187791.00
+2.00	0.00	64835.00	195714.00
+3.00	0.00	66804.00	208239.00
diff --git a/tests/load-sav.vd b/tests/load-sav.vd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4c8dd11db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/load-sav.vd
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+sheet	col	row	longname	input	keystrokes	comment
+			open-file	sample_data/accidents.sav	o