Google R style guide suggests line length of maximum 80 characters. I was wondering how do I set the line length in R. In stata this is done as: set linesize 80

We're working on panel data, and there is a command in Stata, xtsum, that gives you within and between variance for the variables in the data set. Is there a similar command for R, that produces cl...

. sysuse auto, clear (1978 Automobile Data) . di "I am getting some summary statistics for PRICE" I am getting some summary statistics for PRICE . su price Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max...

Objective I am converting a vector of strings of the following format "MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS" to a Stata recognizable datetime using the clock() function. The problem The resulting converte...

I'm trying to conduct a multivariate multiple regression analysis. Fortunately, I've found an excellent page demonstrating how to do so in Stata: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/dae/mvreg.htm ...

Until now the pandas function df.to_stata() worked just fine with my datasets. I am trying to export a dataframe that includes 29,778 rows and 37 to a Stata file using the following code: df.to_sta...

Suppose I am using some twoway graph command in Stata. Without any action on my part Stata will choose some reasonable values for the ranges of both y and x axes, based both upon the minimum and ma...

I have two variables in Stata, both numeric variables that have somehow been recorded as string variables. I need them converted to numeric variables so that I can generate a new variable with them...

codebook is a great command in Stata. It describes data contents but also simply identifies unique values sysuse auto, clear codebook mpg, compact Number of unique values of mpg is 21. Looking a...

I am trying to open a Stata .dta file which is compressed into winrar in R. Here are my codes: library(foreign) setwd("C:/Users/ASUS/Desktop/Data on oil/Oil discovery") data <- read.dta("oil_di...

I have the following data structure. Within each group, some observations have missing value. I do know that each group has only one non-missing value (10 for group 1 and 11 for group 2 in this cas...

I've been using Python for regression analysis. After getting the regression results, I need to summarize all the results into one single table and convert them to LaTex (for publication). Is there...

I am getting an error while converting R file into Stata format. I am able to convert the numbers into Stata file but when I include strings I get the following error: library(foreign) write.dta(...

I have data in long format and am trying to reshape to wide, but there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to do this using melt/stack/unstack: Salesman Height product price Knut 6 bat 5 Kn...

I have a 10 GB .dta Stata file and I am trying to read it into 64-bit R 3.3.1. I am working on a virtual machine with about 130 GB of RAM (4 TB HD) and the .dta file is about 3 million rows and som...

I am using Stata for data analysis but had to convert the dataset I am using from SPSS, which includes variable labels, by saving it as a .csv file. However, the variable labels were not exported t...

Is there a way to convert a dta file to a csv? I do not have a version of Stata installed on my computer, so I cannot do something like: File --> "Save as csv"

In R, some packages (e.g. haven) insert a label attributes to variables (e.g. haven), which explains the substantive name of the variable. For example, gdppc may have the label GDP per capita. Thi...

I have tried a thousand different times to read a Stata14 file on R, and for some reason I keep getting weird things happening (like variables dropped and such.) The original file is saved in Sta...

Other than through redirection, which captures an entire session, is there a way to start and stop logging during an R session? To clarify, I am looking for something similar to the log using comma...

I am writing a Stata do file and I would like to provide default values if the user does not supply some parameters. To do so, I woud like to check if a macro is undefined. I have come up with a ...

In a survey dataset I have a string variable (type: str244) with qualitative responses. I want to count the number of characters in each response/string and generate a new variable containing this ...

Consider the following dataset: df = data.frame(id = c(1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3), time = c(1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3), x = c(8,8,9,7,7,7,7,7,8), id_x = c(1,1,2,3,3,3,4,4,5)) I want to compute id_x which id...

Hadley Wickham's haven package, applied to a Stata file, returns a tibble with many columns of type "labeled". You can see these with str(), e.g.: $ MSACMSZ :Class 'labelled' atomic [1:8491861] NA...

'order' in R seems like 'sort' in Stata. Here's a dataset for example (only variable names listed): v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 v8 v9 v10 v11 v12 v13 v14 v15 v16 v17 v18 and here's the output I expect: ...