[Rd] write.dta (foreign package)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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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