0.7.1 CRAN Hotfix Release

Working features

• reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame
• saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported
• assign variable names
• read the new strL strings and save them as attribute
• convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute
• read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...)
• convert strings to system encoding
• handle different NA values
• handle multiple label languages
• convert dates
• reading business calendar files
• read strings from different file encodings
• reading Stata 14 files

Fixes

• [new in 0.7.1] fix saving of files > 2GB

0.7 CRAN Release

Working features

• reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame
• saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported
• assign variable names
• read the new strL strings and save them as attribute
• convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute
• read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...)
• convert strings to system encoding
• handle different NA values
• handle multiple label languages
• convert dates
• reading business calendar files
• [new in 0.7] read strings from different file encodings
• [new in 0.7] reading Stata 14 files

Fixes

• [new in 0.7] fix save for variables without non-missing values

0.6.1 CRAN Hotfix Release

Working features

• reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame
• saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported
• assign variable names
• read the new strL strings and save them as attribute
• convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute
• read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...)
• convert strings to system encoding
• handle different NA values
• handle multiple label languages
• convert dates
• [new in 0.6] reading business calendar files

Fixes

• fix examples
• fix language tools
• [new in 0.6.1] fix some memory issues

0.6 CRAN Release

Working features

• reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame
• saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported
• assign variable names
• read the new strL strings and save them as attribute
• convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute
• read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...)
• convert strings to system encoding
• handle different NA values
• handle multiple label languages
• convert dates
• [new in 0.6] reading business calendar files

Fixes

• fix examples
• fix language tools

0.5-3 First CRAN Release

Working features

• reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame
• saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported
• assign variable names
• read the new strL strings and save them as attribute
• convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute
• read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...)
• convert strings to system encoding
• handle different NA values
• handle multiple label languages
• convert dates

0.5 CRAN Pre-Release

Working features

• reading data files from disk or url and create a data.frame
• saving dta files to disk - most features of the dta file format are supported
• assign variable names
• read the new strL strings and save them as attribute
• convert stata label to factors and save them as attribute
• read some meta data (timestamp, dataset label, formats,...)
• convert strings to system encoding
• handle different NA values
• handle multiple label languages
• convert dates

0.4 Public Beta

0.4 Public Beta

Changelog

• convert.dates from foreign::read.dta()
• handle different NA values
• convert strings to system encoding
• some checks on label assignment

Testing for CRAN release

Please report all issues with this release. We plan to submit this package to CRAN in the near future and and would like to see as less bugs as possible on CRAN :)

Release 0.3

0.3

• reading file from url.
  Example: read.dta13("http://www.stata-press.com/data/r13/auto.dta")
• option convert.underscore from foreign::read.dta(): converts _ to .
• option missing.type parts from foreign::read.dta(). If TRUE return "missing"

Release 0.2

updated README for rel 0.2