readstata13 - 0.11.0 CRAN Release

Features

• Initial support for Stata 18. Import .dtas files (Stata framesets) via read.dtas(). Alias variables are currently ignored with a warning.
• The select.cols argument accepts either variable names or column indices.

Fixes

• Fix compilation on musl and other non-glibc based systems.
• Add package alias to readstata13.Rd

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Published by sjewo about 1 year ago

readstata13 - 0.10.1 CRAN Release

Fixes

• fix writing "NA", NAcharacter values
• fix writing of STRLs in big endian systems

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Published by sjewo over 3 years ago

readstata13 - 0.10.0 CRAN Release

Features

• improved handling of time and date formats
• collect warnings from read.dta13

Fixes

• fix for reading/writing of format 119
• 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 build on FreeBSD

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Published by sjewo about 5 years ago

readstata13 - 0.9.2 CRAN Release

Fixes

• fix build errors on OS X

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Published by sjewo about 8 years ago

readstata13 - 0.9.1 CRAN Release

Features

• Allow reading only pre-selected variables
• Experimental support for format 119
• Improvements to partial reading. Idea by Kevin Jin
• Export of binary data from dta-files
• new function get.label.tables() to show all Stata label sets

Fixes

• fix check for duplicate labels and fixes in set.lang()

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Published by sjewo about 8 years ago

readstata13 - 0.9.0 CRAN Release

Feature

• check interrupt for long read. Patch by Giovanni Righi
• allow partial reading of selected rows

Fixes

• Generate unique factor labels to prevent errors in factor definition
• updates to notes, roxygen and register
• fixed size of character length. Bug reported by Yiming (Paul) Li
• fix saving characters containing missings. Bug reported by Eivind H. Olsen
• adjustments to convert.underscore. Patch by luke-m-olson

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Published by sjewo about 9 years ago

readstata13 - 0.8.5 CRAN Release

Fixes

• fix memory issues
• fix read and write issues on big-endian systems

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Published by sjewo almost 10 years ago

readstata13 - 0.8.3 CRAN Release

Feature

• Add many unit tests

Fixes

• 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.

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Published by sjewo almost 10 years ago

readstata13 - 0.8.2 CRAN Release

Fixes

• 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=T by default
• test for NaN and inf values while writing missing values and replace with NA
• remove message about saving factors

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Published by sjewo over 10 years ago

readstata13 - 0.8.1 CRAN Hotfix Release

New Features

• convert non-integer variables to factors (nonint.factors=T)
• working with strL variables is now a lot faster (thank to Magnus Thor Torfason)

Fixes

• handle large datasets
• cleanups in code

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Published by sjewo over 10 years ago

readstata13 - 0.8 CRAN Release

New Features

• Support for formats 102-118 (Stata 6 to Stata 14)
• Cleanups in code

Fixes

• Fix strL support in 118
• Update leap seconds code to current foreign

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Published by sjewo over 10 years ago

readstata13 - 0.7.1 CRAN Hotfix Release

Working features

• reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame
• saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported
• assign variable names
• read the new strL strings and save them as attribute
• convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute
• read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...)
• convert strings to system encoding
• handle different NA values
• handle multiple label languages
• convert dates
• reading business calendar files
• read strings from different file encodings
• reading Stata 14 files

Fixes

• [new in 0.7.1] fix saving of files > 2GB

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Published by sjewo almost 11 years ago

readstata13 - 0.7 CRAN Release

Working features

• reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame
• saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported
• assign variable names
• read the new strL strings and save them as attribute
• convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute
• read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...)
• convert strings to system encoding
• handle different NA values
• handle multiple label languages
• convert dates
• reading business calendar files
• [new in 0.7] read strings from different file encodings
• [new in 0.7] reading Stata 14 files

Fixes

• [new in 0.7] fix save for variables without non-missing values

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Published by sjewo about 11 years ago

readstata13 - 0.6.1 CRAN Hotfix Release

Working features

• reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame
• saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported
• assign variable names
• read the new strL strings and save them as attribute
• convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute
• read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...)
• convert strings to system encoding
• handle different NA values
• handle multiple label languages
• convert dates
• [new in 0.6] reading business calendar files

Fixes

• fix examples
• fix language tools
• [new in 0.6.1] fix some memory issues

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Published by sjewo about 11 years ago

readstata13 - 0.6 CRAN Release

Working features

• reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame
• saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported
• assign variable names
• read the new strL strings and save them as attribute
• convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute
• read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...)
• convert strings to system encoding
• handle different NA values
• handle multiple label languages
• convert dates
• [new in 0.6] reading business calendar files

Fixes

• fix examples
• fix language tools

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Published by sjewo about 11 years ago

readstata13 - 0.5-3 First CRAN Release

Working features - reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame - saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported - assign variable names - read the new strL strings and save them as attribute - convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute - read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...) - convert strings to system encoding - handle different NA values - handle multiple label languages - convert dates

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Published by sjewo over 11 years ago

readstata13 - 0.5 CRAN Pre-Release

Working features - reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame - saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported - assign variable names - read the new strL strings and save them as attribute - convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute - read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...) - convert strings to system encoding - handle different NA values - handle multiple label languages - convert dates

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Published by sjewo over 11 years ago

readstata13 - 0.4 Public Beta

0.4 Public Beta

Changelog

• convert.dates from foreign::read.dta()
• handle different NA values
• convert strings to system encoding
• some checks on label assignment

Testing for CRAN release

Please report all issues with this release. We plan to submit this package to CRAN in the near future and and would like to see as less bugs as possible on CRAN :)

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Published by sjewo over 11 years ago

readstata13 - Release 0.3

0.3 - reading file from url. Example: read.dta13("http://www.stata-press.com/data/r13/auto.dta") - option convert.underscore from foreign::read.dta(): converts _ to . - option missing.type parts from foreign::read.dta(). If TRUE return "missing"

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Published by sjewo over 11 years ago

readstata13 - Release 0.2

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Published by sjewo over 11 years ago