This is the kind of question where including the output of sessionInfo() is a really good idea.
This would, for example, answer the question of whether you are in fact using the x64 version of R. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Keniajin Wambui <kiang...@gmail.com> wrote: >I am using R3.0.2 on a windows 64 bit machine. I building a .rnw file >from an .r file. I am using MikTex as the engine for latex. The >function dtaStata <- read.dta("core2.dta", convert.dates=TRUE) works >well in .R but; When I try reading a dta (stata) file I get an error >"subscript out of bounds". The file has 52 variables and over 90000 >observations > >Below is the code in latex > >\section{Introduction} >The following clinical variables are in the core data set > ><<echo=false, results=hide>>= >#setting the working directory >setwd("H:/Rjob/coreGraphs/core2Report/") > >#load the packages >library(ggplot2) >library(foreign) >library(reshape2) >library(psych) >library(epicalc) >library(plyr) >library(doBy) #used to summarize > >##load the core 2 data >dtaStata <- read.dta("core2.dta", convert.dates=TRUE) >dtaStata <- as.data.frame(dtaStata) >dtaStata$ndad<-as.Date(dtaStata$ndad, origin='1960-01-01') >totalData <- table(dtaStata$yr) >#variables in core2 >@ >the data has \Sexpr{ncol(dtaStata)} columns \Sexpr{getwd()} >\clearpage >\end{document} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.