[R] read.dta for files from stata 9.0

[Stefan Grosse]

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 05:39:10 pm Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
PB> Did you check the sources?  The source for read.dta explicitly checks for
PB> VERSION_5 ... VERSION_8 and otherwise says
PB>
PB> "not a Stata version 5-8 .dta file"

No, I did not check the sources, but I checked the help file and there it is 
stated "reads a file in stata version 5-9 binary format" so I trusted in this 
and since I never had a problem with my stata 9 files I also believed it.

Stefan


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