readStata {RcmdrMisc}

Read a Stata Data Set

Description

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.

Usage

readStata(file, rownames=FALSE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE,  convert.dates=TRUE)

Arguments

file

path to a Stata .dta file.

rownames

if TRUE (the default is FALSE), the first column in the data set contains row names, which should be unique.

stringsAsFactors

if TRUE (the default is FALSE) then columns containing character data are converted to factors and factors are created from Stata value labels.

convert.dates

if TRUE (the default) then Stata dates are converted to R dates.

Value

a data frame

Author(s)

John Fox [e-mail]

See Also

read.dta13