st: stata 10 to R

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

A Das said

    I've been having trouble reading Stata 10 files
into R. The error message is:

Error in read.dta("C:/new.dta") : not a Stata version
5-8 .dta file

While I realize this is really an R question, I was
wondering if anyone here has had similar problems, and
found a solution. Thanks,


It seems to me the error message is perfectly clear. Stata 8 and 9  
datafiles share the same format. R knows how to read them. Stata 10  
datafiles have a different format, and even Stata 9 cannot read them.  
If you have Stata 10, use -saveold- to create a Stata 8/9 format  
file, which will then be readable by earlier versions of Stata and,  
presumably, by R.


Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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