For the record, my guess was correct -- it was the result of an error in
the Stata docmentation for version 10 (format 114) files. They have
changed the length of the fmtlist field, but only changed some parts of
the documentation.
So it only affected Stata 10 files, and it did work correctly (where
allowed to) since all that happened was that a neighbouring string
variable was overwritten. Thanks to Aleksandr for the example.
This (and several other Stata 10 issues) is fixed in foreign 0.8-26 now on
CRAN.
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
You haven't followed the posting guide -- no OS, version of R, version of
foreign. (This is fairly clearly Linux, but we need the architecture as such
errors are often confined to one architecture.)
But most importantly, no reproducible example.
This probably indicates an infelicity in the do_readStata code, but without a
reproducible example we will be unable to fix it. (It might be an error in
the foreign package, but it would not be the first time that it was an error
in the description of the Stata format.)
On Mon, 26 May 2008, Aleksandr Andreev wrote:
Greetings!
I attempted to read a STATA 10 file using the following syntax:
library(foreign)
data <- read.dta("~/Documents/agestandard/analysis.dta")
I got the following error:
*** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x48)[0xb7c13138]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x0)[0xb7c130f0]
/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/foreign/libs/foreign.so[0xb759c164]
/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/foreign/libs/foreign.so(do_readStata+0x0)[0xb759c060]
[0x0]
...
Does anyone have any ideas?
Aleks
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