Dear Duncan, Peter and Jim,
Thank you very much!! It worked!

Best regards,

Rob Bakker

2009/4/24 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>

> On 24/04/2009 7:42 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>
>> Jim Lemon wrote:
>>
>>> Rob Bakker wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Sirs,
>>>> I am just starting with R and I think it is a great system. Now, I
>>>> want to
>>>> import Stata datasets (.dta) with read.dta, but receive errormessages
>>>> like:
>>>>
>>>> Error in grep("^(http|ftp|https)://", file) : object "Rklein" not found
>>>>
>>>> Error in read.dta("Rklein") :
>>>>  unable to open file: 'No such file or directory'
>>>> this happens when I use ""
>>>>
>>>> What is the problem and how can I solve it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Rob,
>>> Looks like you're on Windows, and you have probably fallen victim to the
>>> Microsoft  (and Apple) "hide-everything-you-can-from-them" file manager
>>> defaults. Your file "Rklein" probably has an extension on it (maybe
>>> .dta?) and if you can find that by turning off extension hiding, you
>>> will probably see the solution immediately.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>
>> Also, notice the function choose.file() which lets browse your way to
>>
>
> The function name is actually file.choose(), which exists on all (?)
> platforms.  There's also a function choose.files(), only on Windows, and
> mainly used for choosing multiple files (but it has a few other Windows-only
> differences from file.choose()).
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>  the file in the usual Windows style. If used on its own, then it returns
>> the full path to the file, so that you know what to feed to read.dta().
>>
>> You can short-circuit by using read.dta(choose.file()), but if you do it
>> in a script, then you need to do the browsing every time you run the
>> script.
>>
>>
>

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