On Tuesday 18 March 2008 05:39:10 pm Prof Brian Ripley wrote: PB> Did you check the sources? The source for read.dta explicitly checks for PB> VERSION_5 ... VERSION_8 and otherwise says PB> PB> "not a Stata version 5-8 .dta file"
No, I did not check the sources, but I checked the help file and there it is stated "reads a file in stata version 5-9 binary format" so I trusted in this and since I never had a problem with my stata 9 files I also believed it. Stefan -- Microeconomics University of Erfurt ______________________________________________ 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.
