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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 the Dataverse Software
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
Supported Formats
Limitations
Ingest Errors
Example Data
CSV/TSV
Ingest of Comma-Separated Values and Tab-Separated Values files as tabular data
Main formatting requirements
Limitations
Recognized data types and formatting