Dear All,
I am working on a project with Stata 7 datafiles. I'm trying to do some
of my analysis in R since I don't have Stata handy. My problem is with
accessing the Stata column descriptions. (Part of the project is to
clean up these column descriptions.)
I imported the Stata files ok using the standard
X <- read.dta("c:/testdata/test1.dta")
test1.dta has column descriptions, but I can't figure out where they are
kept in X. (I assume they are in X somewhere; at least this is what the
docs seem to imply.) I see variable names in X, but no descriptions.
As a reverse test, I created a short dataset in R (the numbers 1-100),
exported it to Stata format, and opened it in Stata. I was expecting
the column description to be null, but the column description was
populated with the variable name. So it appears that the export program
knows how to set column descriptions. I just need to figure out what
attributes I need to check/set to make it do so.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Regards,
AJ Bostian
