R help - Mar 2008 - read stata data file

Dear R-help list,

I'm new to R.  I tried to get R to read a Stata data file using the 
read.dta function in the package "foreign", which I downloaded and 
extracted to "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.2\library" on my pc. 

I tried

 > nora <- read.dta("nora.dta")

and got

Error: could not find function "read.dta"

I guess "foreign" needs to be installed.  How do you do this?

John Taffe

Biostatistician
Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology
Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Science
Monash University, Australia

On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:05 PM, John Taffe wrote:
> Dear R-help list,
>
> I'm new to R.  I tried to get R to read a Stata data file using the
> read.dta function in the package "foreign", which I downloaded
and
> extracted to "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.2\library" on my pc.
>
> I tried
>
>> nora <- read.dta("nora.dta")
>
> and got
>
> Error: could not find function "read.dta"
>
> I guess "foreign" needs to be installed.  How do you do this?
library(foreign)

or

require(foreign)
>
> John Taffe
>
> Biostatistician
> Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology
> Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Science
> Monash University, Australia
>
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