The dataset comes in 6 versions:

• rsdatanum3xx.RData with the categorical variables coded as numeric
• rsdata3xx.RData with the categorical variables as factors
• rsdatanum3xx.txt (tab-separated) with the categorical variables coded as numeric
• rsdata3xx.txt (tab-separated) with the categorical variables as strings
• rsdatanum3xx.dta (Stata v 14) with the categorical variables coded as numeric
• rsdata3xx.dta (Stata v 14) with the categorical variables as strings

Note that the .dta versions are experimental so check number of observations/patients and descriptive statistics carefully against website.

If you prefer the dataset containing numeric variables the corresponding labels to the numeric values can be found here: https://github.com/KIHeartFailure/shfdb3dm/blob/master/metadata/meta_factorlevels.xlsx

The name of the dataset will be rsdata3xx, depending on version number (see Versions).

The variable description (labels, units, information on when the variable is valid, etc.) can be found here: https://github.com/KIHeartFailure/shfdb3dm/blob/master/metadata/meta_variables.xlsx.