Re: [R] read.dta error after OSX change in time zone

This _is_ Mac-specific, so please use R-sig-mac. It looks like changing the time zone is changing the behaviour of the system function strptime. But we need a reproducible example (see the footer of this and every message). You can probably create one by debugging the failing call and seeing

[R] read.dta error after OSX change in time zone

Hello all, I recently moved from the US to Africa & on changing my time zone in the OSX system preferences from EST to GMT+3 ( East Africa) on attempting to use read.dta using the foreign packagebegan getting an error of: "Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standa