Changelog
Source:NEWS.md
readstata13 0.11.0
- Initial support for Stata 18. Import .dtas files (Stata framesets) via
read.dtas(). Alias variables are currently ignored with a warning. - The
select.colsargument accepts either variable names or column indices. - Fix compilation on musl and other non-glibc based systems.
- Add package alias to readstata13.Rd
readstata13 0.10.1
CRAN release: 2023-02-21
- Fix writing
NAandNA_character_values - Fix writing of STRLs on big endian systems
readstata13 0.10.0
CRAN release: 2021-05-25
- Fix sortlist attribute for dta format 119
- Fix compress option. In the past, unwanted conversions to integer type could occur.
- Fix encoding issues in variable and data labels
- Fix for reading/writing of format 119
- Fix build on FreeBSD
- New feature: improved handling of time and date formats
- New feature: collect warnings from read.dta13
readstata13 0.9.1
CRAN release: 2018-05-25
- Allow reading only pre-selected variables
- Experimental support for format 119
- Improve partial reading
- Export of binary data from dta-files
- New function get.label.tables() to show all Stata label sets
- Fix check for duplicate labels
- Fixes in set.lang
readstata13 0.9.0
CRAN release: 2017-05-05
- Generate unique factor labels to prevent errors in factor definition
- Check interrupt for long read
- Fix storage size of character vectors in save.dta13
- Fix saving characters containing missings
- Implement partial reading of dta-files
- Fix an integer bug with saving data.frames of length requiring uint64_t
readstata13 0.8.4
CRAN release: 2016-09-06
- Fix valgrind errors. converting from dta.write to writestr
- Fix for empty data label
- Make replace.strl default
readstata13 0.8.3
CRAN release: 2016-09-02
- Restrict length of varnames to 32 chars for compatibility with Stata 14
- Stop compression of doubles as floats. Now test if compression of doubles as interger types is possible.
- Add many function tests
readstata13 0.8.2
CRAN release: 2016-02-20
- Save NA values in character vector as empty string
- Convert.underscore=T will convert all non-literal characters to underscores
- Fix saving of Dates
- Save with convert.factors by default
- Test for NaN and inf values while writing missing values and replace with NA
- Remove message about saving factors
readstata13 0.8.1
CRAN release: 2015-11-14
- Convert non-integer variables to factors (nonint.factors=T)
- Working with strL variables is now a lot faster (thank to Magnus Thor Torfason)
- Fix handling of large datasets
- Some code cleanups
readstata13 0.8
CRAN release: 2015-10-07
- Implement reading all version prior 13.
- Clean up code.
- Fix a crash when varlables do not match ncols.
- Update leap seconds R code with foreign.
readstata13 0.7
CRAN release: 2015-05-11
- read and write Stata 14 files (ver 118)
- Fix save for variables without non-missing values
- Read strings from different file encodings
- Code cleanups
readstata13 0.5-3
CRAN release: 2015-02-11
- Write dta-files
- Read/write LSF and MSF files
- Source testing and cleaning
- Support for multiple label languages (see http://www.stata.com/manuals13/dlabellanguage.pdf)
- Additional tools for label handling
readstata13 0.4
- Convert.dates from foreign::read.dta()
- Handle different NA values
- Convert strings to system encoding
- Some checks on label assignment
readstata13 0.3
- Reading file from url. Example:
read.dta13("http://www.stata-press.com/data/r13/auto.dta") - Convert.underscore from foreign::read.dta(): converts _ to .
- Missing.type parts from foreign::read.dta(). If TRUE return “missing”
- New replace.strl argument to replace the reference to a STRL string in the data.frame with the actual value