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RE: st: Cannot open dta file in Stata 12


From   RUCHIRA RAY <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Cannot open dta file in Stata 12
Date   Wed, 4 Sep 2013 04:07:49 +0000

Aah, that might be it. I think my supervisor has Stata 13. I will definitely be trying the "upgrade" line on him, thanks! I have finally been able to import it directly from excel as well. 

many thanks again everyone for your responses.

Kind Regards,

Ruchira. 
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Richard Williams [[email protected]]
Sent: 04 September 2013 04:21
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Cannot open dta file in Stata 12

My guess is that your supervisor has a newer version of Stata than
you do. If so, tell him you can't be expected to work under such
inhumane conditions and demand that he get you an upgrade. Or at
least explain to him how much easier it is when everybody has the
same software.

Barring that, get him to use the -saveold- command for files he wants
you to work with. If you are going to frequently need to import data
saved in other formats, stat/transfer is a great purchase. You can
also download and install from SSC -use13-, which "allows users of
Stata 10-12 to load datasets created with Stata 13."

If you are both using the same version of Stata, then I don't know
what the problem is. Maybe the file is corrupted or maybe there is a
problem with your installation of Stata.


At 11:42 AM 9/3/2013, 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?
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>Many thanks,
>
>Ruchira.
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