readMicrodata

reads data from various formats into R. Used in <code>sdcApp</code>.

Data from statistical agencies and other institutions are mostly
confidential. This package (see also Templ, Kowarik and Meindl (2017) <doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i04>) can be used for the generation of anonymized
(micro)data, i.e. for the creation of public- and scientific-use files.
The theoretical basis for the methods implemented can be found in Templ (2017) <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50272-4>.
Various risk estimation and anonymisation methods are included. Note that the package
includes a graphical user interface (Meindl and Templ, 2019 <doi:10.3390/a12090191>) that allows to use various methods of this
package.

Matthias Templ

sdcMicro

Statistical Disclosure Control Methods for Anonymization of Data
and Risk Estimation

Bernhard Meindl

Alexander Kowarik

readMicrodata function

<dl><dt>path</dt>
<dd>a file path</dd>
<dt>type</dt>
<dd>which format does the file have. currently allowed values are<ul>
<li><code>sas</code></li>
<li><code>spss</code></li>
<li><code>stata</code></li>
<li><code>R</code></li>
<li><code>rdf</code></li>
<li><code>csv</code></li>
</ul></dd>
<dt>convertCharToFac</dt>
<dd>(logical) if TRUE, all character vectors are automatically
converted to factors</dd>
<dt>drop_all_missings</dt>
<dd>(logical) if TRUE, all variables that contain NA-values only
will be dropped</dd>
<dt>...</dt>
<dd>additional parameters. Currently used only if <code>type='csv'</code> to pass
arguments to <code><a href="/link/read.table()?package=sdcMicro&version=5.6.1" data-mini-rdoc="sdcMicro::read.table()">read.table()</a></code>.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Author

readMicrodata — readMicrodata

<dl>

<dt>path</dt>
<dd>a file path</dd>


<dt>type</dt>
<dd>which format does the file have. currently allowed values are<ul>
<li><code>sas</code></li>
<li><code>spss</code></li>
<li><code>stata</code></li>
<li><code>R</code></li>
<li><code>rdf</code></li>
<li><code>csv</code></li>
</ul></dd>


<dt>convertCharToFac</dt>
<dd>(logical) if TRUE, all character vectors are automatically
converted to factors</dd>


<dt>drop_all_missings</dt>
<dd>(logical) if TRUE, all variables that contain NA-values only
will be dropped</dd>


<dt>...</dt>
<dd>additional parameters. Currently used only if <code>type='csv'</code> to pass
arguments to <code><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/utils/read.table.html'>read.table()</a></code>.</dd>

</dl>

readMicrodata: readMicrodata

Description

Usage

Value

Arguments

Author