[R] Issue attaching a dataset

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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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