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2007 Jul 27
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reading stata files: preserving values of variables converted to factors
Hi,
I am a Stata user new to R. I am using read.dta to read a Stata file
that has variables with value labels. read.dta converts them to
factors, but seems to recode them with values from 1 to <number of
factor levels> (looking at the output of unclass(<varname>)), so the
original numerical values are lost. Using convert.factors=FALSE
preserves the values, but seems to discard