Hello all,

I recently moved from the US to Africa  &  on changing my time zone  
in the OSX system preferences from EST to GMT+3 ( East Africa)  on  
attempting to use read.dta  using the foreign package    began   
getting an error  of:

"Error in fromchar(x) : character string is not in a standard  
unambiguous format"

This error goes away & the data is correctly read in when I revert to  
the EST  time zone.

I installed & am currently using R  Version 1.19-pre (devel, r4291)  
(4291)  while I was still in the US.

I am running OS X 10.4.11 on an intel core duo Macbbook pro.

I would appreciate any help .  I have tried to search the list & FAQ  
with no solution to this problem.

Happy 2008.

Danstan Bagenda





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