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