readStata
reads a Stata data set, stored in a file of type .dta
, into an R data frame; it provides
a front end to the read.dta13
function in the readstata13 package.
readStata(file, rownames=FALSE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE, convert.dates=TRUE)
a data frame
path to a Stata .dta
file.
if TRUE
(the default is FALSE
), the first column in the
data set contains row names, which should be unique.
if TRUE
(the default is FALSE
) then columns containing character data are converted to
factors and factors are created from Stata value labels.
if TRUE
(the default) then Stata dates are converted to R dates.
John Fox jfox@mcmaster.ca
read.dta13