On 16 Dec 2009 at 10:24, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Have you tried read.dta? > > The URL on the help page for read.dta now says 'Stata 11 help for > dta', but it seems to document the same format (114) as Stata 10 (see > the value section). So in so far as Stata is telling us, it looks > like Stata 10 and 11 use the same format (as Stata 8 and 9 did). >
That's correct: Stata 10 and Stata 11 use the same file format. If you need a still older format, the -saveold- command in Version 11 of Stata will save a Version 10/11 file in the format that was used by Versions 8 and 9 of Stata. ---JRG > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, David Scott wrote: > > > I have a client who uses Stata 11. > > > > Can anyone advise me on ways of transferring data from this version of > > Stata > > to R? > > > > Reading the documentation for read.dta in package foreign it seems it only > > allows for versions up to Stata 10. I don't know Stata at all but a bit of > > poking around on their website led me to believe Stata 11 couldn't write in > > Stata 10 format. However Stata 11 can write Excel files in XML, so > > presumably > > .xlsx files. > > I suspect it can write .csv files. See for example > http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?outsheet > > > > Any advice, correction of my misconceptions, etc. gladly received. > > > > David Scott > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > David Scott Department of Statistics > > The University of Auckland, PB 92019 > > Auckland 1142, NEW ZEALAND > > Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 > > Email: d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz, Fax: +64 9 373 7018 > > > > Director of Consulting, Department of Statistics > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. John R. Gleason Associate Professor Syracuse University 430 Huntington Hall Voice: 315-443-3107 Syracuse, NY 13244-2340 USA FAX: 315-443-4085 PGP public key at keyservers ______________________________________________ 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.
