R devel - Jan 2008 - write.dta (foreign package)

Hi,
I'd like to request that the 'write.dta' command also save the 
"var.labels" attributes of the data frame.
'read.dta' can read them, but 'write.dta' doesn't write them
back.
Thanks....
Edward McNeil

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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Edward wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to request that the 'write.dta' command also save the
> "var.labels" attributes of the data frame.
> 'read.dta' can read them, but 'write.dta' doesn't write
them back.
Perhaps you could provide a patch?  Very few of us have Stata which would 
be needed to check this out.

Note that a general data frame will not have a "var.labels" attribute,
so
you need careful validity checking.
> Thanks....
> Edward McNeil
>
>
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