Importing original data sets form external files

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.

Importing original data sets form external files

Usage

Arguments

Value

See also