You need a full name in quotes:
auto <- read.dta("C:/Stata10/ado/base/a/auto.dta")
works just fine on my computer.
On 4/14/09, Dwayne Blind <dwayneblind at gmail.com>
wrote:> Dear R users,
>
> I am trying to import a table from STATA, a dta file.
>
> With a table called "table", this is what I do :
>
> library("foreign")
> read.dta(table)
>
> It does not work. What am I doing wrong ?
>
> Best Regards,
> Dwayne
>
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