Hey Red, What's the easiest way to read my IPUMS USA data into R?

Hey Red, What’s the easiest way to read my IPUMS USA data into R?

Here is one common method for reading IPUMS data into R:

(1) Select “STATA” as your data format on the extract request screen. This will generate a .dta file when you submit your extract.

(2) In R, use the following code with the name of your .dta file:

library(foreign)

df <- read.dta(“ipums_file.dta”)

This reads your IPUMS file into a dataframe named “df”. I recommend this resource for more information on using IPUMS data in R.

Hope this helps.