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I'm used to statistical languages, such as Stata, in which it's trivial to pass a list of variables to a function & have that function modify those variables in the existing dataset rather than create copies of the variables or having to replace the entire dataset to change a few variables. In R, I suppose I could paste together the right instructions in a function and then execute

A newbie question: I'm trying to decide whether to run a maximum likelihood estimation in R or Stata and am wondering if the R mle routine is reasonably robust. I'm fairly certain that, with this data, in Stata I would get a lot of complaints about non-concave functions and unproductive steps attempted, but would eventually have a successful ML estimate. I believe that, with the

Dear R-list, I am currently working on a dataset with a colleague who uses stata. We fit a random intercept model to the data (decisions clustered in participants) and get closely the same results in stata (using xtreg re) and R (using the lme4 or multilevel package). Now in stata, there is an additional option for the regression to control for clustering; the vce(cluster clustvar) option,

Full_Name: peter muhlberger Version: 2.7.1 OS: Ubuntu x86_64 dual core Submission from: (NULL) (70.238.206.13) I've spent half a day generating .dta files using write.dta only to have them crash my copy of Stata. I eventually discovered that removing a string variable with a maximum observed length of 280 characters allows Stata to read the file without problems. A Stata limit is that the

I'm trying to use the source command to run commands from a file. For instance: source("do.R"), where do.R is a file in the same directory in which I am running R. The contents of do.R are: ls() print("hello") sum(y1) mean(y1) After source("do.R"), all I see is: > source("do.R") [1] "hello" I'm using the X11 version of R for

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Peter Muhlberger wrote: One comment in advance: please use a more meaningful subject. I would have missed this mail if a colleague hadn't pointed me to it. > I'm someone who from time to time comes to R to do applied stats for social > science research. [snip] > I would also prefer not to have to work through a > couple books on R or S+ to learn how to

Hi, I have a new job, and everyone here uses Stata. I won't give up on R, but I must learn better how to exchange data between the two softwares. I am now focusing on importing data from Stata to R, and I must confess that I am a bit disappointed with the read.dta function from the foreign package because IT typically happens that (i) I get a big R file (for example, a 15Mb Stata file

Long ago (Sat, 2 Nov 2002), Bill Hart <w.hart at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > An R newbie here. I am using R 1.6 currently and have > (successfully, I think) installed the Foreign package. > Tried to import a data file created with Stata 7.0 > SE. Had minor problems with syntax then R decided > that my file was not really a Stata file. It rejected > the file saying

Dear Everybody: I'm doing my usual "how does that work in R" thing with some Stata projects. I find a gross gap between the Stata and R in Cox PH models, and I hope you can give me some pointers about what goes wrong. I'm getting signals from R/Survival that the model just can't be estimated, but Stata spits out numbers just fine. I wonder if I should specify initial

Hi everyone, apologies if the answer to this is in an obvious place. I've been searching for about a day and haven't found anything.. I'm trying to replicate Stata's confidence intervals in R with the survey package, and the numbers are very very close but not exact. My ultimate goal is to replicate Berkeley's SDA website with R (http://sda.berkeley.edu/), which seems to

Hi I am using Stata 10 and I need to import a data set in stata 10 to R, I have saved the dataset in lower versions of Stata as well by using saveold command in Stata. My RAM is 4gb and the stata file is 600MB, I am getting an error message which says : "Error: cannot allocate vector of size 3.4 Mb In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first

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 to Stata. However, according to Stata's documentation both Stata 12 and 13 use format 115, so foreign::read.dta should be

Hi, is there a way to analyze subpopulations (e.g. women over 50, those who answered "yes" to a particular question) in a survey using Survey package? Other packages (e.g. Stata, SUDAAN) do this with a subpopulation option to identify the subpopulation for which the analysis shoud be done. I did not see this option in the Survey package. Is there another way to do this?

Hi I am using Stata 10 and I need to import a data set in stata 10 to R, I have saved the dataset in lower versions of Stata as well by using saveold command in Stata. My RAM is 4gb and the stata file is 600MB, I am getting an error message which says : "Error: cannot allocate vector of size 3.4 Mb In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)" Thus

Dear R experts, Is it true that R generally cannot handle medium sized data sets(a couple of hundreds of thousands observations) and threrefore large date set(couple of millions of observations)? I googled and I found lots of questions regarding this issue, but curiously there were no straightforward answers what can be done to make R capable of handling data. Is there sth inherent in the

Hi R users: I want to know if any of you had used Stata or Statgraphics. What are the advantages and disadvantages with respect to R on the following aspects? 1. Statistical functions or options for advanced experimental design (fractional, mixed models, greco-latin squares, split-plot, etc). 2. Bayesian approach to experimental design. 3. Experimental design planing options. 4. Manuals

I have a client who uses Stata 11. Can anyone advise me on ways of transferring data from this version of Stata to R? Reading the documentation for read.dta in package foreign it seems it only allows for versions up to Stata 10. I don't know Stata at all but a bit of poking around on their website led me to believe Stata 11 couldn't write in Stata 10 format. However Stata 11 can

Dear R-users, has anybody combined the glm function with the Newey-West estimator of variance, similar as in Stata 7.0? I'd like to estimate corrected standard errors within a logistic regression model, taking into account the auto-correlated binary observations within individuals. I use R1.5.1 on Mac OS X (10.2). Thanks, Christof

Hello, all. I wanted to use the "survey" package to analyze data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, and am having some difficulty translating the analysis keywords from one package (Stata) to the other (R). The data were collected using a multistage probability sampling, and there are variables included to identify the sampling units and weights. Documentation from the

Dear All, I was wondering whether someone has created a kernel density evaluator that estimates the density at given specified points. The regular density() function evaluates the kernel at equidistant points, but I am interested in doing such evaluation along a list of values existing in a pre-specified vector. (Similar to the option at() in the kdensity command in Stata). This question has