Re: st: binary format type str question

[Mark Fisher <mark@markfisher.net>]

Thank you for the offer, but I do not really need them and I probably 
will give up now. (Instead I will ask Gelman to supply the data sets in 
another format.) If I decide to pursue this further, I will first look 
at the C code that R uses to read the versions 5, 6, 7, and 7se in 
addition to 8. (Thanks to Sergiy Radyakin for pointing me to that.)

Again, thank you for all your help.

--Mark.

William Gould, Stata wrote:

> Mark Fisher <mark@markfisher.net> writes, 
>
> > [...] I have no problems reading the test files.  Also, I now realize the
> > first byte in the files I am having trouble with is not 113 by 110. Is there
> > a document that explains this format (and other non-113 Stata formats) or
> > should I just give up?
> I would give up, but it depends how serious you are about file conversion.
> Modern Statas read old-format datasets, so all a Stata user has to do 
> to translate a dataset to modern format is type, 
>         . use mydata 
>         . save, replace
>
> A 110 dataset, for you information, is from Stata 7, released December of
> 2000.  Stata 8, it's replacement, uses format 112, was released January of
> 2003.  Format 111 is for Stata/SE 7, released Feb. of 2002.  I could go on.
> Theseday, however, all Statas use a single format, 113.
>
> We do not have documents on-line that describe the different formats but, 
> if you really want them, we will produce them.  It would take us a few weeks
> and perhaps a couple of months to do that.
>
> -- Bill
> wgould@stata.com
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