[R] write.dta and handling labels

[Spencer Graves]

Have you considered "write.table"? 

hope this helps.  spencer graves

Arnab mukherji wrote:

>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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