This package provides support for Stata '.dta' files from Stata verison 8 and above.

Quickstart

using Pkg
Pkg.add("DTALib.jl")

using DTALib
data = DTALib.read(".dta")

Features

• Currently supports:

  • Reading .dta files. Specifically it supports dta versions:
  • 113: Stata 8
  • 114: Stata 10
  • 115: Stata 12
  • 117: Stata 13
  • 118: Stata 14, 15, and 16
  • 119: Stata 15 and 16 (when dataset has more than 32,767 variables)
  • Reading Header information including:
  • the Dataset Label
  • the Dataset Timestamp
  • It also supports missing values

• It currently does not (but there are plans to) support:

  • Writing to .dta files
  • Very long strings, specifically, strings longer than 2,045 bytes, aka strL's in Stata's terms
  • Variable labels: i.e. no labelling for binary (0,1) or categorical encoded variables (0, 1, 2, ...)