Currently haven can read and write logical, integer, numeric, character
and factors. See labelled() for how labelled variables in
Stata are handled in R.
Usage
read_dta(file, encoding = NULL)
read_stata(file, encoding = NULL)
write_dta(data, path, version = 14)
Arguments
file
Either a path to a file, a connection, or literal data
(either a single string or a raw vector).
Files ending in .gz, .bz2, .xz, or .zip will
be automatically uncompressed. Files starting with http://,
https://, ftp://, or ftps:// will be automatically
downloaded. Remote gz files can also be automatically downloaded and
decompressed.
Literal data is most useful for examples and tests. It must contain at
least one new line to be recognised as data (instead of a path).
encoding
The character encoding used for the file. Generally,
only needed for Stata 13 files and earlier. See Encoding section
for details.
data
Data frame to write.
path
Path to a file where the data will be written.
version
File version to use. Supports versions 8-15.
Value
A tibble, data frame variant with nice defaults.
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_dta() returns the input data invisibly.
Character encoding
Prior to Stata 14, files did not declare a text encoding, and the
default encoding differed across platforms. If encoding = NULL,
haven assumes the encoding is windows-1252, the text encoding used by
Stata on Windows. Unfortunately Stata on Mac and Linux use a different
default encoding, "latin1". If you encounter an error such as
"Unable to convert string to the requested encoding", try
encoding = "latin1"
For Stata 14 and later, you should not need to manually specify encoding
value unless the value was incorrectly recorded in the source file.