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Thanks in advance. I pass data sets between R and Stata and think dta files would be the best files for this. To do this I can use package foreign or package memisc. I mostly use foreign, although have used memisc and this problem mostly didn't happen, but created errors at other times. I have a csv data set (and created a test case) with with at least one column completely missing. This

Dear R listers, I have a silly problem. I am trying to load a dta (Stata) file in R. The dta is about 650 MB and contains the integrated World Values Survey/ European Value Study data-set. My problem is that I don't manage to load the file. After almost 1 hour I issued the following command: data <- read.dta("http://www.stata-press.com/data/kkd/data1.dta", convert.dates = TRUE,

Hope everyone id doing great .. Just need some clarification over the limit of write.dta. I have some coauthors that use stata and I need to send them my data in .dta format. the data.frame is 41706x229 and I get the following Error in write.dta(Panel, file = "STATADATA/Panel.dta", version = 7) : a binary write error occured Once I subset the data everything works out fine. my

I'm trying to read in a Stata file but I've never used this function ( read.dta). It's the only one that seems to come close to working, but I keep getting this error: > data<-read.dta("C:/Documents and Settings/Chris/Desktop/S4412/catestscores.dta") Error in read.dta("C:/Documents and Settings/Chris/Desktop/S4412/catestscores.dta", : a binary read

Dear R-helpers, if I want to read a .dta-file generated by stata 9.0 with read.dta (foreign), I get the message "not a stata version 5-8 .dta-file". I'm using R-2.6.2 and the latest version of the foreign package. Has someone any hint? With many thanks, Albrecht

Hello, I need to write out a data matrix as a STATA 7 file and this happens perfectly with write.dta(), except I cannot seem to export the labelnames to Stata. So far I have tried the following: # X is the data matrix that is to be exported attributes(X)$var.labels <- c("apple", "banana", "cat") write(X, filename = "text.dta", version = 7) When i

When I import a data file in stata format using read.dta, the full variable labels (e.g. variable= "inc2000"; variable label= "Total household income in year 2000"). When I then export the same data file using write.dta, the variable labels are not included in the new .dta file. Is there any way to ensure that the variable labels are maintained? Thanks [[alternative HTML

Hi, I'd like to request that the 'write.dta' command also save the "var.labels" attributes of the data frame. 'read.dta' can read them, but 'write.dta' doesn't write them back. Thanks.... Edward McNeil -- Epidemiology Unit Faculty of Medicine Prince of Songkla University Hat Yai THAILAND (\_ _/) (='.'=) ('')_('') -- This

Dear Sir/Madam, I converted the .dta into .Rdata with the foreign library read.dta. However, when I use fix() I get the message that the dates are discarded. Before fix(), class(dateX) gives 'dates' as class; after fix() class(dateX) gives 'character' Why is that? Best regards, Rob Bakker [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I got a .dta extension file by e-mail, but I can't save it in my computer and open it in R. How can I do it? [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Thanks in advance. I'm having a trouble with data saving. I want to run the same data which is in Ecdat library at different statistic programs(excel, stata and matlab) The data I want to use is library(Ecdat) data(Housing) and I want to extract this data our of R as *.dta *.xls formats. So, my first try was to open the data in R window and drag and paste to excel or notepad. BUT, it

I use to work whit stata dataframe, so, when I use R I type read.dta Until today I do that without any problem, after type: mydata<-read.dta("C:/dropbox/dataframe.dta") attach(mydata) Everything works great... but today, when I typed: mydata<-read.dta("C:/dropbox/dataframe.dta") attach(mydata) Appeared: Error in substr(these, 1L, 6L) : invalid multibyte string at

I found some old messages regarding a possible pkt8 DTA "bypass". Anyone is using Packet8 with Asterisk? ========== http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7292324~root=voip~mode=flat Got Softphone Working with Packet8 Friendly name: {Anything you'd like.} SIP domain: packet8.net SIP proxy: packet8.net Leave everything else at the default. When you login, it will ask for a username

Dear All, I have been using Sweave (mainly via the Sweave.sh script) and really like it. I am working a paper (using Sweave, of course) which includes several time-consuming computations, and it gets tedious to re-compile the whoel thing every time I made changes. Then I discover the "cacheSweave" package, which seems the right solution to my problem. I only have on problem. Here is

Greetings! I attempted to read a STATA 10 file using the following syntax: library(foreign) data <- read.dta("~/Documents/agestandard/analysis.dta") I got the following error: *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x48)[0xb7c13138]

Dear All, I installed R 2.7.0 and tried to call a dataset i had ealier own called on R2.6.2 but i keep on getting an error: use("maltreat.dta") Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format Tried doing the same with R2.7.1 but i get the same error. However if i call the same on R 2.6.2, there is no error: use("maltreat.dta") > des()

Hello all, I recently moved from the US to Africa & on changing my time zone in the OSX system preferences from EST to GMT+3 ( East Africa) on attempting to use read.dta using the foreign package began getting an error of: "Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format" This error goes away & the data is correctly read in when

I'm trying to read in a perfectly good Stata data file created using Stata 10 in Linux and saved in the version 8/9 format using "saveold". R fails to read in the file: aa<-read.dta("myfile.dta") Error in read.dta("myfile.dta"): a binary read error occurred If I resave the file in Stata using the "nolabels" option of saveold, I get: There were

Concerning this article, Christopher Zorn, "Generalized Estimating Equation Models for Correlated Data: A Review with Applications." 2001. American Journal of Political Science 45(April):470-90. The author very kindly provides data for replication on his web page: http://www.emory.edu/POLS/zorn/Data/GEE.zip. I've been comparing the Professor Zorn's results obtained with

Dear R-helpers, I would like to have my students read into R an online Stata dataset: 'http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta' I was able to read it into R after downloading it and converting it with StatTransfer (http://www.stattransfer.com/). Here is what happens when I use read.dta() as I would use read.table(): > require(foreign) > risk2 <-