Presumably it means what it says : You have a non-ASCII character in the dataset. Any accented character, for example, is going to be outside the basic ASCII character set.
Examples mydata <- data.frame(étt=1:10) # error newdata <- data.frame(ntt=1:10) # no error See http://www.theasciicode.com.ar/ for a list write.dta(mydata, file = "stata.dta") John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, 18 May 2013 15:05:57 +0200 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [R] exporting data into STATA > > Dear All, > > I am not very familiar with ASCII file format, and now I am trying to > export R data frame into STATA > When I run write.dta command, there is a warning below appear. > > 5: In abbreviate(ll, 80L) : abbreviate used with non-ASCII chars > > Do you have any suggestion to fix it? > > All the bests > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
