readMicrodata

reads data from various formats into R. Used in sdcApp.

readMicrodata(
  path,
  type,
  convertCharToFac = TRUE,
  drop_all_missings = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

path

a file path

type

which format does the file have. currently allowed values are

• sas

• spss

• stata

• R

• rdf

• csv

convertCharToFac

(logical) if TRUE, all character vectors are automatically converted to factors

drop_all_missings

(logical) if TRUE, all variables that contain NA-values only will be dropped

...

additional parameters. Currently used only if type='csv' to pass arguments to read.table().

Value

a data.frame or an object of class 'simple.error'. If a stata file was read in, the resulting data.frame has an additional attribute lab in which variable and value labels are stored.

Note

if type is either 'sas', 'spss' or 'stata', values read in as NaN will be converted to NA.

Author

Bernhard Meindl