| stata.get {Hmisc} | R Documentation |
Reads a file in Stata version 5-8 or 7/SE binary format into a data frame.
stata.get(file, lowernames = FALSE, convert.dates = TRUE,
convert.factors = TRUE, missing.type = FALSE,
convert.underscore = TRUE, warn.missing.labels = TRUE,
force.single = TRUE, allow=NULL, charfactor=FALSE, ...)
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 |
allow |
a vector of characters allowed by R that should not be converted to periods in variable names. By default, underscores in variable names are converted to periods as with R before version 1.9. |
charfactor |
set to TRUE to change character variables to
factors if they have at least two characters in an observation but
have fewer than n/2 unique values |
... |
arguments passed to read.dta. |
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.
A data frame
Charles Dupont
read.dta,cleanup.import,label,\label{data.frame},Date
## Not run:
w <- stata.get(\sQuote{/tmp/my.dta})
## End(Not run)