[R] not a Stata version 5-12 .dta file

Ista Zahn istazahn at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 21:59:38 CET 2015


Is the file publicly available? What is the URL?

Best,
Ista

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Nicole Ford <nicole.ford at me.com> wrote:
> Hello, Ista.
>
> Honestly, I am uncertain.  I don't have STATA -- I downloaded this from the data source website.
>
> I can't imagine it is 13 because the data are old (2006).
>
> I tried package readstata13 out of desperation, but didn't think it would resolve.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 19, 2015, at 4:41 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Nicole,
>>
>> Is it a stata 13 data file? If so your best bet is to open it in Stata
>> and use the "saveold" command to save it as a stata 12 file.
>>
>> Best,
>> Ista
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Nicole Ford <nicole.ford at me.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I recently updated to the newest version of R and I am encountering issues.  Please find my error and session info below.  My data are attached.  I have tried the readstata13 package just in case to no avail.  Unless I am missing something, google isn’t helping.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> error:
>>>> dat <- read.dta(file.choose())
>>> Error in read.dta(file.choose()) : not a Stata version 5-12 .dta file
>>> 2015-03-19 14:14:21.445 R[398:5728] Unable to simultaneously satisfy constraints:
>>> (
>>>    "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x608000490bd0 h=-&- v=-&- H:|-(0)-[NSView:0x60000012eba0]   (Names: '|':FIFinderView:0x600000363a80 )>",
>>>    "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x608000490e50 h=-&- v=-&- H:[NSView:0x60000012eba0]-(0)-|   (Names: '|':FIFinderView:0x600000363a80 )>",
>>>    "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x608000491120 h=-&- v=-&- H:|-(0)-[FIFinderView:0x600000363a80]   (Names: '|':NSNavFinderViewFileBrowser:0x608000377400 )>",
>>>    "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x608000491170 h=-&- v=-&- H:[FIFinderView:0x600000363a80]-(0)-|   (Names: '|':NSNavFinderViewFileBrowser:0x608000377400 )>",
>>>    "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x608000491350 h=--& v=--& H:[NSNavFinderViewFileBrowser:0x608000377400(585)]>",
>>>    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x600000482d50 H:|-(0)-[NSView:0x60000012e380]   (Names: '|':NSView:0x60000012eba0 )>",
>>>    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x600000482da0 H:[NSView:0x60000012e380]-(0)-|   (Names: '|':NSView:0x60000012eba0 )>",
>>>    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x6000004816d0 H:[FILocationPopUp:0x6000001f2800(207)]>",
>>>    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x600000482a30 NSView:0x60000012e380.centerX == FILocationPopUp:0x6000001f2800.centerX>",
>>>    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x6000004825d0 H:[FILocationPopUp:0x6000001f2800]-(>=10)-[SGTSearchField:0x6000003a5160]>",
>>>    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x600000482b70 H:[SGTSearchField:0x6000003a5160]-(11)-|   (Names: '|':NSView:0x60000012e380 )>",
>>>    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x6000004814f0 H:[SGTSearchField:0x6000003a5160(>=218)]>"
>>> )
>>>
>>> Will attempt to recover by breaking constraint
>>> <NSLayoutConstraint:0x6000004814f0 H:[SGTSearchField:0x6000003a5160(>=218)]>
>>>
>>> Set the NSUserDefault NSConstraintBasedLayoutVisualizeMutuallyExclusiveConstraints to YES to have -[NSWindow visualizeConstraints:] automatically called when this happens.  And/or, break on objc_exception_throw to catch this in the debugger.
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>
>>> Session Info:
>>> R version 3.1.3 (2015-03-09)
>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
>>> Running under: OS X 10.10.1 (Yosemite)
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>
>>> other attached packages:
>>> [1] effects_3.0-3   lattice_0.20-30 lme4_1.1-7      Rcpp_0.11.2     Matrix_1.1-5    runjags_1.2.1-0 sm_2.2-5.4      foreign_0.8-63  car_2.0-25
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] coda_0.16-1      colorspace_1.2-4 grid_3.1.3       MASS_7.3-39      mgcv_1.8-4       minqa_1.2.3      nlme_3.1-120     nloptr_1.0.0     nnet_7.3-9
>>> [10] parallel_3.1.3   pbkrtest_0.4-2   quantreg_5.11    SparseM_1.6      splines_3.1.3    tools_3.1.3
>>>
>>> ~n
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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