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
  • 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