Transpile a STATA .do file to metasurvey steps — transpile_stata • metasurvey

Parses a STATA .do file and translates its commands into metasurvey step call strings suitable for use in Recipe objects.

Usage

transpile_stata(do_file, survey_type = "ech", user = "iecon", strict = FALSE)

Arguments

do_file: Path to a STATA .do file
survey_type: Survey type (default "ech")
user: Author name for the recipe
strict: If TRUE, stops on untranslatable commands; if FALSE, inserts MANUAL_REVIEW comments as warnings

Value

A list with:

steps: character vector of step call strings
labels: list with var_labels and val_labels (if label commands found)
warnings: character vector of MANUAL_REVIEW items
stats: list with command counts

See also

Other transpiler: parse_do_file(), parse_stata_labels(), transpile_coverage(), transpile_stata_module()

Examples

# \donttest{
tf <- tempfile(fileext = ".do")
writeLines(c("gen age2 = edad^2", "replace sexo = 1 if sexo == ."), tf)
result <- transpile_stata(tf)
result$steps
#> [1] "step_compute(svy, age2 = edad^2, sexo = data.table::fifelse(is.na(sexo), 1, sexo))"
result$stats
#> $translated
#> [1] 2
#> 
#> $skipped
#> [1] 0
#> 
#> $manual_review
#> [1] 0
#> 
# }