On Tuesday 18 March 2008 05:39:10 pm Prof Brian Ripley wrote: PB> According to http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dta, Stata now writes in PB> 'format-114'. read.dta expects only versions 113, 111 and earlier. PB> There is very little difference between formats 113 and 114, so it should PB> be easy to modify read.dta to cope.
114 is already stata 10, not 9. So it should work with 9. Maybe it is confusing that the variable is still named version_8 although its value 113 includes stata 9 files. 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.