[R] not a Stata version 5-12 .dta file

[Nicole Ford]

Ista,

I am pulling multiple countries and multiple waves, but here is one country in one wave.  I know if I can get one to work, I can get them all to work.  I have used WVS data in the past and never encountered any issues, so I am at a loss here.  Thanks again!

http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV3.jsp <http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV3.jsp>


~Nicole






> On Mar 19, 2015, at 4:59 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is the file publicly available? What is the URL?
> 
> Best,
> Ista
> 
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Nicole Ford <nicole.ford at me.com> wrote:
>> Hello, Ista.
>> 
>> Honestly, I am uncertain.  I don't have STATA -- I downloaded this from the data source website.
>> 
>> I can't imagine it is 13 because the data are old (2006).
>> 
>> I tried package readstata13 out of desperation, but didn't think it would resolve.
>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestion!
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Mar 19, 2015, at 4:41 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Nicole,
>>> 
>>> Is it a stata 13 data file? If so your best bet is to open it in Stata
>>> and use the "saveold" command to save it as a stata 12 file.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Ista
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Nicole Ford <nicole.ford at me.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I recently updated to the newest version of R and I am encountering issues.  Please find my error and session info below.  My data are attached.  I have tried the readstata13 package just in case to no avail.  Unless I am missing something, google isn’t helping.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> error:
>>>>> dat <- read.dta(file.choose())
>>>> Error in read.dta(file.choose()) : not a Stata version 5-12 .dta file
>>>> 2015-03-19 14:14:21.445 R[398:5728] Unable to simultaneously satisfy constraints:
>>>> (
>>>>   "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x608000490bd0 h=-&- v=-&- H:|-(0)-[NSView:0x60000012eba0]   (Names: '|':FIFinderView:0x600000363a80 )>",
>>>>   "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x608000490e50 h=-&- v=-&- H:[NSView:0x60000012eba0]-(0)-|   (Names: '|':FIFinderView:0x600000363a80 )>",
>>>>   "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x608000491120 h=-&- v=-&- H:|-(0)-[FIFinderView:0x600000363a80]   (Names: '|':NSNavFinderViewFileBrowser:0x608000377400 )>",
>>>>   "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x608000491170 h=-&- v=-&- H:[FIFinderView:0x600000363a80]-(0)-|   (Names: '|':NSNavFinderViewFileBrowser:0x608000377400 )>",
>>>>   "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x608000491350 h=--& v=--& H:[NSNavFinderViewFileBrowser:0x608000377400(585)]>",
>>>>   "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x600000482d50 H:|-(0)-[NSView:0x60000012e380]   (Names: '|':NSView:0x60000012eba0 )>",
>>>>   "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x600000482da0 H:[NSView:0x60000012e380]-(0)-|   (Names: '|':NSView:0x60000012eba0 )>",
>>>>   "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x6000004816d0 H:[FILocationPopUp:0x6000001f2800(207)]>",
>>>>   "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x600000482a30 NSView:0x60000012e380.centerX == FILocationPopUp:0x6000001f2800.centerX>",
>>>>   "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x6000004825d0 H:[FILocationPopUp:0x6000001f2800]-(>=10)-[SGTSearchField:0x6000003a5160]>",
>>>>   "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x600000482b70 H:[SGTSearchField:0x6000003a5160]-(11)-|   (Names: '|':NSView:0x60000012e380 )>",
>>>>   "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x6000004814f0 H:[SGTSearchField:0x6000003a5160(>=218)]>"
>>>> )
>>>> 
>>>> Will attempt to recover by breaking constraint
>>>> <NSLayoutConstraint:0x6000004814f0 H:[SGTSearchField:0x6000003a5160(>=218)]>
>>>> 
>>>> Set the NSUserDefault NSConstraintBasedLayoutVisualizeMutuallyExclusiveConstraints to YES to have -[NSWindow visualizeConstraints:] automatically called when this happens.  And/or, break on objc_exception_throw to catch this in the debugger.
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>> 
>>>> Session Info:
>>>> R version 3.1.3 (2015-03-09)
>>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
>>>> Running under: OS X 10.10.1 (Yosemite)
>>>> 
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>> 
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>> 
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>> [1] effects_3.0-3   lattice_0.20-30 lme4_1.1-7      Rcpp_0.11.2     Matrix_1.1-5    runjags_1.2.1-0 sm_2.2-5.4      foreign_0.8-63  car_2.0-25
>>>> 
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>> [1] coda_0.16-1      colorspace_1.2-4 grid_3.1.3       MASS_7.3-39      mgcv_1.8-4       minqa_1.2.3      nlme_3.1-120     nloptr_1.0.0     nnet_7.3-9
>>>> [10] parallel_3.1.3   pbkrtest_0.4-2   quantreg_5.11    SparseM_1.6      splines_3.1.3    tools_3.1.3
>>>> 
>>>> ~n
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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