Hi Stephan,
Does the foreign package help?
HTH,
(another) Stephan
Stephan Lindner schrieb:
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
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