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There is an old rule of thumb that says 80% of your data analysis time is spent transforming, reshaping, merging, and otherwise managing your data. Stata has a reputation of being more flexible than R for data management. However, as you will see in this chapter, R can do everything that Stata can do on these important tasks.
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Muenchen, R.A., Hilbe, J.M. (2010). Data Management. In: R for Stata Users. Statistics and Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1318-0_10
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