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readstata13 (version 0.9.2)

save.dta13: Write Stata Binary Files

Description

save.dta13 writes a Stata dta-file bytewise and saves the data into a dta-file.

Usage

save.dta13(data, file, data.label = NULL, time.stamp = TRUE,
  convert.factors = TRUE, convert.dates = TRUE, tz = "GMT",
  add.rownames = FALSE, compress = FALSE, version = 117,
  convert.underscore = FALSE)

Arguments

data

data.frame. A data.frame Object.

file

character. Path to the dta file you want to export.

data.label

character. Name of the dta-file.

time.stamp

logical. If TRUE, add a time.stamp to the dta-file.

convert.factors

logical. If TRUE, factors will be converted to Stata variables with labels. Stata expects strings to be encoded as Windows-1252, so all levels will be recoded. Character which can not be mapped in Windows-1252 will be saved as hexcode.

convert.dates

logical. If TRUE, dates will be converted to Stata date time format. Code from foreign::write.dta

tz

character. The name of the timezone convert.dates will use.

add.rownames

logical. If TRUE, a new variable rownames will be added to the dta-file.

compress

logical. If TRUE, the resulting dta-file will use all of Statas numeric-vartypes.

version

numeric. Stata format for the resulting dta-file either Stata version number (6 - 15) or the internal Stata dta-format (e.g. 117 for Stata 13). Experimental support for large datasets: Use version="15mp" to save the dataset in the new Stata 15/MP file format. This feature is not thoroughly tested yet.

convert.underscore

logical. If TRUE, all non numerics or non alphabet characters will be converted to underscores.

Value

The function writes a dta-file to disk. The following features of the dta file format are supported:

datalabel:

Dataset label

time.stamp:

Timestamp of file creation

formats:

Stata display formats. May be used with sprintf

type:

Stata data type (see Stata Corp 2014)

var.labels:

Variable labels

version:

dta file format version

strl:

List of character vectors for the new strL string variable type. The first element is the identifier and the second element the string.

References

Stata Corp (2014): Description of .dta file format http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dta

See Also

read.dta in package foreign and memisc for dta files from Stata versions < 13 and read_dta in package haven for Stata version >= 13.