sorry i missed that. install.packages('foreign') solved the problem,
thank you!! :)
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:
> See the posting guide: your version of 'foreign' is not current:
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreign/index.html .
>
> Please update your packages and try again. (This looks very like a bug in
> recently contributed code that has already been fixed.)
>
>
> On 07/11/2013 13:40, Anthony Damico wrote:
>
>> this file
>>
>>
>> http://www.electionstudies.org/studypages/data/anes_
>> mergedfile_1992to1997/anes_mergedfile_1992to1997_dta.zip
>>
>> can be downloaded after free registration on this page
>>
>> http://electionstudies.org/studypages/download/registration_form.php
>>
>>
>> imports properly in windows R x64 3.0.1 but causes R x64 3.0.2 to crash
>>
>>
>> the crash occurs at the line
>>
>> rval <- .External(do_readStata, file)
>>
>>
>> at the bottom of this e-mail, i have included code that will reproduce the
>> problem exactly in 3.0.2 but not 3.0.1
>>
>>
>> and if i don't load the memisc and Hmisc packages, i get an error instead
>> of a crash..
>>
>>
>> x <- read.dta( fp , convert.factors = FALSE )
>>>
>> Error in read.dta(fp, convert.factors = FALSE) :
>> Value of SET_STRING_ELT() must be a 'CHARSXP' not a 'NULL'
>>
>>
>> ..but if i load both (as shown in the script below), R just dies.
>>
>>
>> =================
>>
>>
>> sessionInfo for 3.0.1 (the version that works)
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>>>
>> R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>> LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] grid splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets
>> methods base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] memisc_0.96-6 MASS_7.3-26 lattice_0.20-15 Hmisc_3.12-2
>> Formula_1.1-1 survival_2.37-4 httr_0.2 stringr_0.6.2
>> foreign_0.8-53
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] cluster_1.14.4 digest_0.6.3 RCurl_1.95-4.1 rpart_4.1-1
>> tools_3.0.1
>>
>>
>> =================
>>
>> sessionInfo in 3.0.2 right before the crash --
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>>>
>> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] grid splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets
>> [8] methods base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] memisc_0.96-6 MASS_7.3-29 lattice_0.20-23 Hmisc_3.12-2
>> [5] Formula_1.1-1 survival_2.37-4 httr_0.2 stringr_0.6.2
>> [9] foreign_0.8-55
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] cluster_1.14.4 digest_0.6.3 RCurl_1.95-4.1 rpart_4.1-3
>> tools_3.0.2
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> =================
>>
>>
>> # code that works in 3.0.1 and crashes in 3.0.2 --
>>
>>
>> setwd( "C:/my directory/anes")
>> your.username <- "em...@address.com"
>> your.password <- "your.password"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> require(foreign) # load foreign package (converts data files into R)
>> require(stringr) # load stringr package (manipulates character strings
>> easily)
>> require(httr) # load httr package (downloads files from the web,
>> with SSL and cookies)
>> require(Hmisc) # load Hmisc package (loads spss.get function)
>> require(memisc) # load memisc package (loads spss portable table
>> import functions)
>>
>> # construct a list containing the pre-specified login information
>> values <-
>> list(
>> "email" = your.username ,
>> "pass" = your.password
>> )
>>
>> # contact the anes website to log in
>> POST( "http://www.electionstudies.org/studypages/download/login-
>> process.php"
>> , body = values )
>>
>> # download the `all_datasets` page to figure out what needs to be
>> downloaded
>> z <- GET( "
>> http://www.electionstudies.org/studypages/download/
>> datacenter_all_datasets.php"
>> )
>>
>> # create a temporary file and a temporary directory
>> tf <- tempfile() ; td <- tempdir()
>>
>> # download the damn file
>> z <- GET( "
>> http://www.electionstudies.org/studypages/data/anes_
>> mergedfile_1992to1997/anes_mergedfile_1992to1997_dta.zip"
>> )
>>
>> # save the result to a temporary file on the local disk
>> writeBin( z$content , tf )
>>
>> # unzip that temporary file to an equally-temporary directory
>> z <- unzip( tf , exdir = td )
>>
>> # find which one it is from among everything zipped up together..
>> fp <- z[ grep( 'dta' , z ) ]
>>
>> # ..import that puppy
>> x <- read.dta( fp , convert.factors = FALSE )
>> # crash.
>>
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