import_stata {eatGADS}

Import Stata data

Description

Function to import .dta files while extracting meta information, e.g. variable and value labels.

Usage

import_stata(filePath, checkVarNames = TRUE, labeledStrings = FALSE)

Arguments

filePath

Source file location, ending on .dta.

checkVarNames

Should variable names be checked for violations of SQLite and R naming rules?

labeledStrings

Should strings as labeled values be allowed? This possibly corrupts all labeled values.

Details

Stata files (.dta) store variable and value labels and assign specific formatting to variables. import_stata imports data from Stata, while storing this meta-information separately in a long format data frame. Time and date variables are converted to character.

Value

Returns a list with the actual data dat and a data frame with all meta information in long format labels.