readStata: Read a Stata Data Set

In RcmdrMisc: R Commander Miscellaneous Functions

Read a Stata Data Set

Description

Read a Stata Data Set

Usage

readStata(
  file,
  rownames = FALSE,
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
  convert.dates = TRUE
)

Arguments

file	path to a Stata .dta file.
rownames	if TRUE (the default is FALSE), the first column in the data set contains row names, which should be unique.
stringsAsFactors	if TRUE (the default is FALSE) then columns containing character data are converted to factors and factors are created from Stata value labels.
convert.dates	if TRUE (the default) then Stata dates are converted to R dates.

Details

readStata reads a Stata data set, stored in a file of type .dta, into an R data frame; it provides a front end to the read.dta13 function in the readstata13 package.

Value

a data frame.

Author(s)

John Fox

See Also

read.dta13

RcmdrMisc documentation built on Jan. 8, 2026, 9:06 a.m.