On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Stefan Grosse wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2008 03:33:02 pm K. Elo wrote: > KE> Seems quite obvious to me: "not a stata version 5-8" means, that the 9.0 > KE> version is not supported. So You should save the file in stata ver. 8 > KE> format and then give a new try. > KE> > KE> Hope this helps, > > No. I have stata 9.2 and the data import works very well. So I doubt that it > is "not supported". If you check the help you will see hints that 9 works. > > Albrecht, how do your data look like and what is the exact use of your > read.dta?
Did you check the sources? The source for read.dta explicitly checks for VERSION_5 ... VERSION_8 and otherwise says "not a Stata version 5-8 .dta file" so at least as far as file formats are concerned, 'K. Elo' was quite correct. According to http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dta, Stata now writes in 'format-114'. read.dta expects only versions 113, 111 and earlier. There is very little difference between formats 113 and 114, so it should be easy to modify read.dta to cope. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
