FWIW, documentation .dta from Stata 13::
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dta
"Stata 13 writes what are
known as .dta format-117 files and can read all formats of files that
have ever been released. The recent history of .dta formats is
FormatCurrent as of
On 23/01/2014 08:21, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
As you know, Stata support in 'foreign' was frozen a while back at Stata
version 12. R-core has received a request from a grad student to 'give
top priority' to supporting Stata 13. That is not going to happen, not
least because none of us has access