Package to read and write all Stata file formats (version 17 and older) into a R data.frame. The dta file format versions 102 to 119 are supported.
The function read.dta
from the foreign package imports only dta files from
Stata versions <= 12. Due to the different structure and features of dta 117
files, we wrote a new file reader in Rcpp.
Additionally the package supports many features of the Stata dta format like
label sets in different languages (?set.lang
) or business calendars
(?as.caldays
).
The package is hosted on CRAN.
install.packages("readstata13")
library(readstata13)
dat <- read.dta13("path to file.dta")
save.dta13(dat, file="newfile.dta")
To install the current release from github you need the platform specific build tools. On Windows a current installation of Rtools is necessary, while OS X users need to install Xcode.
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("sjewo/readstata13", ref="0.10.0")
Older Versions of devtools require a username option:
install_github("readstata13", username="sjewo", ref="0.10.0")
To install the current development version from github:
devtools::install_github("sjewo/readstata13", ref="testing")
Version | Changes |
---|---|
0.10.1 | fix writing "NA", NA_character_ values |
fix writing of STRLs in big endian systems | |
0.10.0 | fix for reading/writing of format 119 |
fix sortlist attribute for dta format 119 | |
fix compress option. In the past, unwanted conversions to integer type could occur. | |
fix encoding issues in variable and data labels | |
fix build on FreeBSD | |
new feature: improved handling of time and date formats | |
new feature: collect warnings from read.dta13 | |
0.9.2 | Fix Build on MacOS X |
0.9.1 | Allow reading only pre-selected variables |
Experimental support for format 119 | |
Improvements to partial reading. Idea by Kevin Jin | |
Export of binary data from dta-files | |
new function get.label.tables() to show all Stata label sets | |
Fix check for duplicate labels and in set.lang() | |
0.9.0 | Generate unique factor labels to prevent errors in factor definition |
check interrupt for long read. Patch by Giovanni Righi | |
Updates to notes, roxygen and register | |
Fixed size of character length. Bug reported by Yiming (Paul) Li | |
Fix saving characters containing missings. Bug reported by Eivind H. Olsen | |
Adjustments to convert.underscore. Patch by luke-m-olson | |
Allow partial reading of selected rows | |
0.8.5 | Fix errors on big-endians systems |
0.8.4 | Fix valgrind errors. converting from dta.write to writestr |
Fix for empty data label | |
Make replace.strl default | |
0.8.3 | Restrict length of varnames to 32 chars for compatibility with Stata 14 |
Add many function tests | |
Avoid converting of double to floats while writing compressed files | |
0.8.2 | Save NA values in character vector as empty string |
Convert.underscore=T will convert all non-literal characters to underscores | |
Fix saving of Dates | |
Save with convert.factors by default | |
Test for NaN and inf values while writing missing values and replace with NA | |
Remove message about saving factors | |
0.8.1 | Convert non-integer variables to factors (nonint.factors=T ) |
Handle large datasets | |
Working with strL variables is now a lot faster | |
<0.8.1 | Reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame |
Saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported | |
Assign variable names | |
Read the new strL strings and save them as attribute | |
Convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute | |
Read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...) | |
Convert strings to system encoding | |
Handle different NA values | |
Handle multiple label languages | |
Convert dates | |
Reading business calendar files |
Most attributes of the resulting data.frame are largely similar to the data.frames produced by foreign
.
Since newer Stata files require some additional attributes, the results of all.equal()
and identical()
will be FALSE
for data.frames read by foreign::read.dta
and read.dta13()
.
Otherwise, the data.frames produced by both functions are identical.
library(foreign)
library(readstata13)
# with factors
r12 <- read.dta("https://www.stata-press.com/data/r12/auto.dta")
r13 <- read.dta13("https://www.stata-press.com/data/r13/auto.dta")
all.equal(r12, r13, check.attributes = FALSE)
# without factors
r12 <- read.dta("https://www.stata-press.com/data/r12/auto.dta",
convert.factors = FALSE)
r13 <- read.dta13("https://www.stata-press.com/data/r13/auto.dta",
convert.factors = FALSE)
all.equal(r12, r13, check.attributes = FALSE)
Marvin Garbuszus (JanMarvin) and Sebastian Jeworutzki (sjewo)
GPL2