LibraData a Dataverse Repository
  • User Guide
    • LibraData Account Creation & Management
    • Glossary of Terms
    • Glossary of Icons & Symbols
    • Finding and Using Data
    • Dataverse Collection Management
    • Dataset + File Management
    • Tabular Data File Ingest
      • Supported File Formats
      • Tabular Data, Representation, Storage and Ingest
      • SPSS
      • Stata
      • R Data Format
      • Excel
      • CSV/TSV
    • Appendix
    • LibraData Policies and Sharing Norms

Tabular Data File Ingest¶

Contents:

  • Supported File Formats
  • Tabular Data, Representation, Storage and Ingest
    • What Happens During this “Ingest”?
    • Tabular Data and Metadata
      • Data vs. Metadata
      • Tabular Metadata in Dataverse
  • SPSS
    • Supported Versions
    • Limitations
    • SPSS Control Cards - not supported
    • Support for Language Encodings in SPSS
  • Stata
  • R Data Format
    • Overview
    • Data Formatting Requirements.
    • Data Types, compared to other supported formats (Stat, SPSS)
      • Integers, Doubles, Character strings
      • R Factors
      • Boolean values
      • Limitations of R, as compared to SPSS and STATA.
    • Time values in R
  • Excel
  • CSV/TSV
    • Ingest of Comma-Separated Values and Tab-Separated Values files as tabular data
    • Main formatting requirements
    • Limitations
    • Recognized data types and formatting

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