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: <
The R method will work reliably, and it requires little knowledge of R. Note that the conversion using the foreign package will preserve data, but may introduce differences. For example, when converting a table without a primary key, the primary key and associated columns will be inserted during the conversion.
From http://www.r-bloggers.com/using-r-for-stata-to-csv-conversion/ I recommend:
library(foreign)
write.table(read.dta(file.choose()), file=file.choose(), quote = FALSE, sep = ",")