read.dbf(file, as.is = FALSE)
make.names(unique=TRUE)
. There is an attribute "data_type"
giving the single-character
dBase types for each field.
read.dbf
is based on C code from
"L"
(logical), "N"
and "F"
(numeric and float)
and "D"
(dates): all other field types are read as-is as
character vectors. A numeric field is read as an Rinteger vector if
it is encoded to have no decimals, otherwise as a numeric vector. However,
if the numbers are too large to fit into an integer vector, it is
changed to numeric. Note that is possible to read integers that cannot be
represented exactly even as doubles: this sometimes occurs if IDs are
incorrectly coded as numeric.
The Borland file specification via
write.dbf
x <- read.dbf(system.file("files/sids.dbf", package="foreign")[1])
str(x)
summary(x)
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