thanks a lot. works!!!


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 26/02/2013 09:55, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
>
>> Le lundi 25 février 2013 à 20:26 -0300, Pablo Menese a écrit :
>>
>>> I use to work whit stata dataframe, so, when I use R I type read.dta
>>> Until today I do that without any problem, after type:
>>>
>>> mydata<-read.dta("C:/dropbox/**dataframe.dta")
>>> attach(mydata)
>>>
>>> Everything works great... but today, when I typed:
>>>
>>> mydata<-read.dta("C:/dropbox/**dataframe.dta")
>>> attach(mydata)
>>>
>>> Appeared:
>>>
>>> Error in substr(these, 1L, 6L) : invalid multibyte string at '<f1>'
>>>
>>> I searched in google and nothing. Can anyone help me?
>>>
>> To be clear: the error appears when running read.dta(), not when calling
>> attach(), right? And the C:/dropbox/dataframe.dta that fails today is
>> different from the one that worked yesterday? Are you able to read it in
>> Stata?
>>
>> Also, please provide the output of sessionInfo().
>>
>
> Note that Stata say
>
>  4. Strings use ASCII encoding.
>
> (in the URL linked from ?read.dta).  We have seen exceptions in the past,
> but as the format has no way to record the encoding (it is ASCII, right?),
> read.dta can only read files in the native encoding.
>
>
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