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Re: st: Cannot open dta file in Stata 12


From   Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Cannot open dta file in Stata 12
Date   Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:53:16 -0400

what version of Stata does you supervisor have?

On 9/3/13 12:42 PM, RUCHIRA RAY wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently trying to open a .dta file, which was created by exporting the data from excel, using a stata software. The .dta file was created on my supervisor's computer and opened fine in Stata on his computer but I have not been able to open it on
> other computers. I keep getting a error r(610) that the file is not in stata format. 
> 
> Furthermore, I've tried importing directly from excel but I am unable to check the button for using the first row as variable names.
> 
> Could anyone please advise me on why the original data file is not recognised as a stata file and how I could overcome the problem? Also, how could I overcome the second issue of being able to read the first row of the excel file into stata as variable
>  names?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Ruchira.
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