read_dta {retroharmonize}

Read Stata DTA files ('.dta') files

Description

This is a wrapper around haven::read_dta with some exception handling.

Usage

read_dta(file, id = NULL, filename = NULL, doi = NULL, .name_repair = "unique")

Arguments

file

A STATA file.

id

An identifier of the tibble, if omitted, defaults to the file name.

filename

An import file name.

doi

An optional document object identifier.

.name_repair

Defaults to "unique" See tibble::as_tibble for details.

Details

'read_dta()' reads both '.dta' files.

The funcion is not yet tested.

Value

A tibble.

Variable labels are stored in the "label" attribute of each variable. It is not printed on the console, but the RStudio viewer will show it.

'write_sav()' returns the input 'data' invisibly.

See Also

Other import functions: pull_survey(), read_rds(), read_spss(), read_surveys(), subset_save_surveys()

Examples

path <- system.file("examples", "iris.dta", package = "haven")
read_dta(path)