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rEHR (version 1.0)

to_stata: Compresses a dataframe and saves in stata format. Options to save as Stata 12 or 13.

Description

Automatically compresses data to reduce file size

Usage

to_stata(dat, fname, stata13 = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

dat
dataframe
fname
character string: filepath to save to
stata13
logical Save as Stata13 compatible format?
...
arguments to be passed to compress

Details

Defaults to saving compressed dates to integer days from 1960-01-01 which is the standard in stata.