[R] Importing STATA files

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"McElroy, Brendan" <BMcElroy at economics.ucc.ie> writes:

> I'm an R novice who is struggling with the importation STATA files into R.
> 
> I've loaded "foreign" and tried the example based on the Swiss file, which
> works fine.  I then placed a STATA file, auto6.dta, in my working directory,
> which is "C:\Program Files\R\rw1030\library\base\data".
> 
> The following is what happened:
> 
> > library(foreign)
> > read.dta(auto6)
> Error in read.dta(auto6) : Object "auto6" not found

Needed quotes.

> So I tried:
> > read.dta("C:\Program Files\R\rw1030\library\base\data\auto6")
> Error in read.dta("C:Program FilesR\rw1030library\basedata") : 
>         unable to open file
> 
> The same thing happens if I put the STATA file in various other directories
> that I suspect "foreign" might treat as the working directory, all to no
> avail.

Needed forward slashes or doubled backslashes.

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