I just found an old 1.6.2 (Mac OS/Darwin) lying around and it doesn't recognize the file as a stata file (with foreign 0.5-8)
-thomas On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Thomas Lumley wrote: > > > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Alan Cobo-Lewis wrote: > > > > > > > > But sometimes older works better than newer. The read.dta() function in > > > R 1.7.0's foreign package (package 0.6-3) fails to recognize as a Stata > > > file what seems to be a genuine Stata file, even though R 1.6.2's > > > foreign package (package 0.5-9) imports the same file just work fine. > > Are the data correct with 1.6.2? It's looking increasingly strange that > foreign ever read these data. The file doesn't seem to have the timestamp > field that versions 5-8 include, which should mess up the reading of the > rest of the file. > > -thomas > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help