[R] Stata files

[David Scott]

Thank you both (JRG and BDR) for the advice. Just to clarify Brian, I 
don't actually have any example .dta files yet to test. I wanted to be 
prepared and be able to advise the client what to do.

I don't see anything about 'Stata 11 help for dta' Brian: must have a 
different URL. But I did note already that Stata 11 uses format 114 
which I agree indicates 10 and 11 use the same format.

David

JRG wrote:
> On 16 Dec 2009 at 10:24, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
>> Have you tried read.dta?
>>
>> The URL on the help page for read.dta now says 'Stata 11 help for 
>> dta', but it seems to document the same format (114) as Stata 10 (see 
>> the value section).  So in so far as Stata is telling us, it looks 
>> like Stata 10 and 11 use the same format (as Stata 8 and 9 did).
>>
> 
> That's correct:  Stata 10 and Stata 11 use the same file format.  If you need a still older format, 
> the -saveold- command in Version 11 of Stata will save a Version 10/11 file in the format that was 
> used by Versions 8 and 9 of Stata.
> 
> ---JRG
> 
> 
>> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, David Scott wrote:
>>
>>> 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 write Excel files in XML, so presumably 
>>> .xlsx files.
>> I suspect it can write .csv files.  See for example
>> http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?outsheet
>>
>>
>>> Any advice, correction of my misconceptions, etc. gladly received.
>>>
>>> David Scott
>>>
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David Scott	Department of Statistics
		The University of Auckland, PB 92019
		Auckland 1142,    NEW ZEALAND
Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055
Email:	d.scott at auckland.ac.nz,  Fax: +64 9 373 7018

Director of Consulting, Department of Statistics