NEWS

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readstata13 0.8.5 (2016-09-09)

• fix errors on big-endian systems

readstata13 0.8.4 (2016-09-06)

• fix valgrind errors. converting from dta.write to writestr
• fix for empty data label
• make replace.strl default

readstata13 0.8.3 (2016-09-02)

• restrict length of varnames to 32 chars for compatibility with Stata 14
• Stop compression of doubles as floats. Now test if compression of doubles as interger types is possible.
• add many function tests

readstata13 0.8.2 (2016-02-20)

• save NA values in character vector as empty string
• convert.underscore=T will convert all non-literal characters to underscores
• fix saving of Dates
• save with convert.factors by default
• test for NaN and inf values while writing missing values and replace with NA
• remove message about saving factors

readstata13 0.8.1 (2015-11-14)

• convert non-integer variables to factors (nonint.factors=T)
• working with strL variables is now a lot faster (thank to Magnus Thor Torfason)
• fix handling of large datasets
• some code cleanups

readstata13 0.8 (2015-10-07)

• implement reading all version prior 13.
• clean up code.
• fix a crash when varlables do not match ncols.
• update leap seconds R code with foreign.

readstata13 0.7.1 (2015-08-07)

• fix saving of files > 2GB

readstata13 0.7 (2015-05-11)

• read and write Stata 14 files (ver 118)
• fix save for variables without non-missing values
• read strings from different file encodings
• code cleanups

readstata13 0.6.1 (2015-03-24)

• fix heap overflow

readstata13 0.6 (2015-03-22)

• various fixes
• reading stbcal-files

readstata13 0.5

• write dta-files
• read/write LSF and MSF files
• source testing and cleaning
• support for multiple label languages (see http://www.stata.com/manuals13/dlabellanguage.pdf)
• additional tools for label handling

readstata13 0.4

• convert.dates from foreign::read.dta()
• handle different NA values
• convert strings to system encoding
• some checks on label assignment

readstata13 0.3

• reading file from url. Example: 'read.dta13("http://www.stata-press.com/data/r13/auto.dta")'
• convert.underscore from foreign::read.dta(): converts _ to .
• missing.type parts from foreign::read.dta(). If TRUE return "missing"
• replace.strl option to replace the reference to a STRL string in the data.frame with the actual value

readstata13 0.2

• read stata characteristics and save them in extension.table attribute
• more robust handling of factor labels
• set file encoding for all strings and convert them to system encoding
• fixed compiler warnings

readstata13 0.1

• reading data files and create a data.frame
• 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,...)