Dear all, I was wondering whether anyone knows about a program which converts (part of) a data definition file (such as a .dct file for stata, or .sas file for sas) into an R-script.
Here is an example with a .sas file: <-- snipp VALUE HTYPE (default=32) 0 = "Not in household" 1 = "Married couple family household" 2 = "Male householder family" 3 = "Female householder family" 4 = "Male householder nonfamily" 5 = "Female householder nonfamily" 6 = "Group quarters" ; snapp --> This entry defines the variable HTYPE as a factor and assigns levels and labels. Ideally, it would be transformed into the following entry in R: data.frame$HTYPE <- factor(data.frame$HTYPE, levels=c(0,1,2,3,4,5,6), labels=c("Not in household", "Married couple family household", "Male householder family", "Female householder family", "Male householder nonfamily", "Female householder nonfamily", "Group quarters" ) ) Of course, this can be done by hand and isn't too bad with a good text editor. The reason why I am looking for a program is because I have a bunch of datasets (about 100) and there are about 200 variables defined per dataset. My goal is to provide R-scripts for these datasets such that the data files can be read in with R, making them accessible for R users. Thanks! Stephan -- ----------------------- Stephan Lindner University of Michigan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.