Thank you both (JRG and BDR) for the advice. Just to clarify Brian, I
don't actually have any example .dta files yet to test. I wanted to be
prepared and be able to advise the client what to do.
I don't see anything about 'Stata 11 help for dta' Brian: must have a
different URL. But I did note already that Stata 11 uses format 114
which I agree indicates 10 and 11 use the same format.
David
JRG wrote:
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
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