Changed package used to read in stata files

[thomasbattram]

readstata13 loses information when reading in .dta files because it ignores all the comments on the variables. This is a pain with alspac data because it means you have no idea what the variables correspond to because each of the column names aren't descriptions of the variables, e.g. the column "fm4ms100" is actually height measured at the FOM4 time point...

[explodecomputer]

hey have you tested this? does the haven function work in exactly the same way as the readstata13 package?

[thomasbattram]

Hi Gib, Hope you're well! Sorry, I didn't mean to give you any work to do! This is what I currently use to read in the stata files for my project. I haven't tested whether it takes longer to read in files, but the data itself is the same. haven uses tibbles instead of data.frames also. Kind regards, Tom

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