[R] Importint stata file and using value labels

Michael Friendly friendly at yorku.ca
Sat Aug 27 17:55:04 CEST 2016


On 8/26/2016 11:05 AM, Juan Ceccarelli Arias wrote:
> Yep. Im a bit stalled.
> I can't find the option to import only the values and drop the value labels
> from the dta file.
> Im quite sure R can do that. Then i'd only used the values and i'd rely on
> my memory.
> It isn't a bad alternative.
>

Hint: use str() to see the class of what you've read.
Then try as.data.frame() on the resulting object read from the .dta file.


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