On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Your examples work for me via read.dta() and via use(), including the Date
columns, with the current foreign_0.8-28. They also work on Windows 2.7.1
with foreign_0.8-26.
As far as I can see the only relevant part of read.dta is
as.Date("1960-1-1"
Your examples work for me via read.dta() and via use(), including the Date
columns, with the current foreign_0.8-28. They also work on Windows 2.7.1
with foreign_0.8-26.
As far as I can see the only relevant part of read.dta is
as.Date("1960-1-1"): you might want to try that to see if it malf
Dear Prof Brian,
It is true that i used the epicalc package. The functions use() and
des() are from epicalc.
The problem does not occur if i use library(foreign) : tmp <-
read.dta("maltreat.dta", convert.dates=FALSE)
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
i386-pc-mingw32
locale:
LC_C
What are use() and des()? Please note the footer of this message.
(Are you using package epicalc without telling us?)
I suspect that foreign::read.dta is being used. That has argument
'convert.dates', and you could try setting it to FALSE, as the message is
from as.Date.character() complainin
Dear All,
I installed R 2.7.0 and tried to call a dataset i had ealier own called
on R2.6.2 but i keep on getting an error:
use("maltreat.dta")
Error in fromchar(x) :
character string is not in a standard unambiguous format
Tried doing the same with R2.7.1 but i get the same error.
However i
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