[R] read stata data file

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:05 PM, John Taffe wrote:

> Dear R-help list,
>
> I'm new to R.  I tried to get R to read a Stata data file using the
> read.dta function in the package "foreign", which I downloaded and
> extracted to "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.2\library" on my pc.
>
> I tried
>
>> nora <- read.dta("nora.dta")
>
> and got
>
> Error: could not find function "read.dta"
>
> I guess "foreign" needs to be installed.  How do you do this?

library(foreign)

or

require(foreign)

>
> John Taffe
>
> Biostatistician
> Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology
> Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Science
> Monash University, Australia
>
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Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College