[R] import from stata

Stas Kolenikov skolenik at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 03:51:57 CEST 2009


You need a full name in quotes:

auto <- read.dta("C:/Stata10/ado/base/a/auto.dta")

works just fine on my computer.

On 4/14/09, Dwayne Blind <dwayneblind at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
>  I am trying to import a table from STATA, a dta file.
>
>  With a table called "table", this is what I do :
>
>  library("foreign")
>  read.dta(table)
>
>  It does not work. What am I doing wrong ?
>
>  Best Regards,
>  Dwayne
>
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