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Tabular Data File Ingest
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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