R: Enhanced Importing of STATA Files

stata.get {Hmisc}

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Enhanced Importing of STATA Files

Description

Reads a file in Stata version 5-8 or 7/SE binary format into a data frame.

Usage

stata.get(file, lowernames = FALSE, convert.dates = TRUE,
          convert.factors = TRUE, missing.type = FALSE,
          convert.underscore = TRUE, warn.missing.labels = TRUE,
          force.single = TRUE)

Arguments

`file`	input SPSS save file. May be a file on the WWW, indicated by `file` starting with `'http://'`.
`lowernames`	set to `TRUE` to convert variable names to lower case
`convert.dates`	see `read.dta`
`convert.factors`	see `read.dta`
`missing.type`	see `read.dta`
`convert.underscore`	see `read.dta`
`warn.missing.labels`	see `read.dta`
`force.single`	set to `FALSE` to prevent integer-valued variables from being converted from storage mode `double` to `integer`

Details

stata.get invokes the read.dta function in the foreign package to read an STATA file, with a default output format of data.frame. The label function is used to attach labels to individual variables instead of to the data frame as done by read.dta. By default, integer-valued variables are converted to a storage mode of integer unless force.single=FALSE. Date variables are converted to R Date variables. By default, underscores in names are converted to periods.

Value

A data frame

Author(s)

Charles Dupont

Examples

## Not run: 
w <- stata.get(\sQuote{/tmp/my.dta})
## End(Not run)

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