Variable lables (was Re: [R] Reading SAS version 8 data into

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Martyn Plummer wrote:
> We use a program called Stat/Transfer to convert between different
> file formats.  Recent versions of Stat/Transfer will preserve SAS value
> labels if you supply a format dataset.  [It  doesn't support R, but you
> can get from SAS to R via Stata]. I suppose that you could get read.xport
> to work the same way ...
>

While Stat/Transfer and DBMS/Copy will preserve value labels going from
SAS to Stata, read.dta won't preserve them going from Stata to R.

There is documentation in the Stata manual for how to read and write Stata
value labels (including partial C code), but I haven't implemented it yet.

	-thomas

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