[R] not a Stata version 5-12 .dta file
Nicole Ford
nicole.ford at me.com
Fri Mar 20 05:30:29 CET 2015
I am trying it now— it is downloading currently. I will let you know of any success in the morning. Thanks!
> On Mar 20, 2015, at 12:09 AM, Anthony Damico <ajdamico at gmail.com> wrote:
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> doesn't just running this solve your problem?
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> https://github.com/ajdamico/usgsd/blob/master/World%20Values%20Survey/download%20all%20microdata.R <https://github.com/ajdamico/usgsd/blob/master/World%20Values%20Survey/download%20all%20microdata.R>
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> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Nicole Ford <nicole.ford at me.com <mailto:nicole.ford at me.com>> wrote:
> Anthony,
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> Thanks for this. The issue I am having is WVS didn’t save all of their stata files, it seems, as .dta. Further, the .rdata files are not loading correctly, either, giving me .Traceback or crashes R when I try to source it. I will poke around your link to see if it can provide any insight.
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>> On Mar 19, 2015, at 9:09 PM, Anthony Damico <ajdamico at gmail.com <mailto:ajdamico at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> hi nicole, i have published easy to reproduce, well-documented code to download and then analyze every file from every wave of the world values survey here. the download automation script should solve your problem, or at least work around it :)
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>> http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/world%20values%20survey%20%28wvs%29 <http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/world%20values%20survey%20%28wvs%29>
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>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Nicole Ford <nicole.ford at me.com <mailto:nicole.ford at me.com>> wrote:
>> the text didn’t send for the R data file erros. sorry about that.
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>> 2015-03-19 17:41:38.544 R[398:5728] Unable to simultaneously satisfy constraints:
>> (
>> "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x6000018966c0 h=-&- v=-&- H:|-(0)-[NSView:0x60000032da20] (Names: '|':FIFinderView:0x6080003612c0 )>",
>> "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x6000012881b0 h=-&- v=-&- H:[NSView:0x60000032da20]-(0)-| (Names: '|':FIFinderView:0x6080003612c0 )>",
>> "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x600000a8c710 h=-&- v=-&- H:|-(0)-[FIFinderView:0x6080003612c0] (Names: '|':NSNavFinderViewFileBrowser:0x608000375fc0 )>",
>> "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x60000128eb50 h=-&- v=-&- H:[FIFinderView:0x6080003612c0]-(0)-| (Names: '|':NSNavFinderViewFileBrowser:0x608000375fc0 )>",
>> "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x600000c93fb0 h=--& v=--& H:[NSNavFinderViewFileBrowser:0x608000375fc0(585)]>",
>> "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x60000149d740 H:|-(0)-[NSView:0x600000133ec0] (Names: '|':NSView:0x60000032da20 )>",
>> "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x600001489880 H:[NSView:0x600000133ec0]-(0)-| (Names: '|':NSView:0x60000032da20 )>",
>> "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x60000109e280 H:[FILocationPopUp:0x6000003fda00(207)]>",
>> "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x600000a82760 NSView:0x600000133ec0.centerX == FILocationPopUp:0x6000003fda00.centerX>",
>> "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x600000e835c0 H:[FILocationPopUp:0x6000003fda00]-(>=10)-[SGTSearchField:0x6000003bf800]>",
>> "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x60000069f2c0 H:[SGTSearchField:0x6000003bf800]-(11)-| (Names: '|':NSView:0x600000133ec0 )>",
>> "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x6000006801e0 H:[SGTSearchField:0x6000003bf800(>=218)]>"
>> )
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>> Will attempt to recover by breaking constraint
>> <NSLayoutConstraint:0x6000006801e0 H:[SGTSearchField:0x6000003bf800(>=218)]>
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>> 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.
>> > str(dat)
>> chr [1:2] ".Traceback" "WV3_Data_rdata_v_2014_09_21"
>> > ls(dat)
>> Error in as.environment(pos) :
>> no item called ".Traceback" on the search list
>> > dat
>> [1] ".Traceback" "WV3_Data_rdata_v_2014_09_21"
>> > sessionInfo()
>> 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)
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>> locale:
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
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>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
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>> other attached packages:
>> [1] readstata13_0.5-3 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
>> [9] foreign_0.8-63 car_2.0-25
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>> 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
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>> > On Mar 19, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Nicole Ford <nicole.ford at me.com <mailto:nicole.ford at me.com>> wrote:
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>> > Ista,
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>> > 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!
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>> > http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV3.jsp <http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV3.jsp><http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV3.jsp <http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV3.jsp>>
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>> > ~Nicole
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>> >> On Mar 19, 2015, at 4:59 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com <mailto:istazahn at gmail.com> <mailto:istazahn at gmail.com <mailto:istazahn at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>> >> Is the file publicly available? What is the URL?
>> >>
>> >> Best,
>> >> Ista
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>> >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Nicole Ford <nicole.ford at me.com <mailto:nicole.ford at me.com> <mailto:nicole.ford at me.com <mailto: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.
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>> >>> I can't imagine it is 13 because the data are old (2006).
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>> >>> I tried package readstata13 out of desperation, but didn't think it would resolve.
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>> >>> Thanks for the suggestion!
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>> >>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> >>>> On Mar 19, 2015, at 4:41 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com <mailto:istazahn at gmail.com> <mailto:istazahn at gmail.com <mailto:istazahn at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi Nicole,
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>> >>>> 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 <mailto:nicole.ford at me.com> <mailto:nicole.ford at me.com <mailto: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.
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>> >>>>> Thank you in advance.
>> >>>>>
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>> >>>>> 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
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>> >>>>> ~n
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