Changes in version 0.11.0 (2025-04-25)                 

  - Initial support for Stata 18. Import .dtas files (Stata framesets)
    via read.dtas(). Alias variables are currently ignored with a
    warning.
  - The select.cols argument accepts either variable names or column
    indices.
  - Fix compilation on musl and other non-glibc based systems.
  - Add package alias to readstata13.Rd

                 Changes in version 0.10.1 (2023-02-21)                 

  - Fix writing NA and NA_character_ values
  - Fix writing of STRLs on big endian systems

                 Changes in version 0.10.0 (2021-05-25)                 

  - Fix sortlist attribute for dta format 119
  - Fix compress option. In the past, unwanted conversions to integer
    type could occur.
  - Fix encoding issues in variable and data labels
  - Fix for reading/writing of format 119
  - Fix build on FreeBSD
  - New feature: improved handling of time and date formats
  - New feature: collect warnings from read.dta13

                 Changes in version 0.9.2 (2018-05-26)                  

  - Fix build on OSX

                 Changes in version 0.9.1 (2018-05-25)                  

  - Allow reading only pre-selected variables
  - Experimental support for format 119
  - Improve partial reading
  - Export of binary data from dta-files
  - New function get.label.tables() to show all Stata label sets
  - Fix check for duplicate labels
  - Fixes in set.lang

                 Changes in version 0.9.0 (2017-05-05)                  

  - Generate unique factor labels to prevent errors in factor definition
  - Check interrupt for long read
  - Fix storage size of character vectors in save.dta13
  - Fix saving characters containing missings
  - Implement partial reading of dta-files
  - Fix an integer bug with saving data.frames of length requiring
    uint64_t

                 Changes in version 0.8.5 (2016-09-09)                  

  - Fix errors on big-endian systems

                 Changes in version 0.8.4 (2016-09-06)                  

  - Fix valgrind errors. converting from dta.write to writestr
  - Fix for empty data label
  - Make replace.strl default

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                  Changes in version 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.

                 Changes in version 0.7.1 (2015-08-07)                  

  - Fix saving of files > 2GB

                  Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 0.6.1 (2015-03-24)                  

  - Fix heap overflow

                  Changes in version 0.6 (2015-03-22)                   

  - Various fixes
  - Reading stbcal-files

                 Changes in version 0.5-3 (2015-02-11)                  

  - 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

                         Changes in version 0.4                         

  - Convert.dates from foreign::read.dta()
  - Handle different NA values
  - Convert strings to system encoding
  - Some checks on label assignment

                         Changes in version 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"
  - New replace.strl argument to replace the reference to a STRL string
    in the data.frame with the actual value

                         Changes in version 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

                         Changes in version 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,...)