Package 'redatam'

Title: Import 'REDATAM' Files
Description: Import 'REDATAM' formats into R via the 'Open REDATAM' C++ library. The full context of this project and details about the implementation are available in <doi:10.1017/dap.2025.4> (Open Access).
Authors: Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1017-7574>), Lital Barkai [aut], Ivan Krylov [ctb], Arseny Kapoulkine [ctb] ('pugixml' C++ library), Oriental Republic of Uruguay [dtc] (Aggregated census data from 2011)
Maintainer: Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda <[email protected]>
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Version: 2.3.0
Built: 2026-05-18 18:31:55 UTC
Source: https://github.com/litalbarkai/open-redatam

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Read REDATAM dictionary

Description

Read a DIC or DICX dictionary file directly into R.

Usage

read_redatam(dictionary)

Arguments

dictionary

A character string with the path to the dictionary file. It allows relative paths.

Value

A list of tibbles, each one representing a table with the census entities (or levels) and their attributes (or variables).

Examples

# Read a dictionary file (Uruguay 2011, aggregated)
zip <- system.file("extdata", "uru2011mini.zip", package = "redatam")
dout <- paste(tempdir(), "uru2011mini", sep = "/")
unzip(zip, exdir = dout)
read_redatam(paste(dout, "uru2011mini.dic", sep = "/"))
# or equivalently
read_redatam(paste(dout, "uru2011mini.dicx", sep = "/"))