R: readMicrodata

readMicrodata {sdcMicro} | R Documentation

## readMicrodata

### Description

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

### Usage

    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(s)

Bernhard Meindl

[Package sdcMicro version 5.6.1 Index]