[R] write.dta and handling labels

[Arnab mukherji]

Hello,

 I need to write out a data matrix as a STATA 7 file and this happens perfectly with write.dta(), except I cannot seem to export the labelnames to Stata. 

 So far I have tried the following:
# X is the data matrix that is to be exported
attributes(X)$var.labels <- c("apple", "banana", "cat")
write(X, filename = "text.dta", version = 7)

When i open the file in stata instead of the label names all I get are the variable names, when i ask stata to "describe" the data.

I am hoping someone can suggest ways in which i can export the label names more effectively!

thanks.

Arnab


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Ph.D. Candidate
RAND Graduate School 
Santa Monica