read.obs: Importing original data sets form external files

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Importing original data sets form external files

Description

Imports data data sets form external files into a data frame. Currently supported files include: sav (SPSS), dta (Stata), xpt (SAS), csv (comma-separated file), tab (tab-delimited file) and txt (delimited text files). For SPSS, Stata and SAS it uses functions from the foreign package with some adjustments where necessary.

Usage

read.obs(file, convert.factors = TRUE, lab.factors = FALSE, 
export.lab = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

file	the name of the file (including extension) which the data are to be read from.
convert.factors	a logical value indicating whether variables with value labels in Stata and SPSS should be converted into R factors with those levels.
lab.factors	a logical value indicating whether variables with complete value labels but imported using their numeric codes (convert.factors = FALSE) should be converted from numeric to factor variables.
export.lab	a logical variable indicating whether labels from SPSS or Stata should be exported to an external file.
...	additional parameters passed to read functions.

Value

A data frame with an imported data set. For SPSS, Stata and SAS it has attributes with labels.

See Also

write.syn

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