Jonathan Miller wrote:
> Hi all.  I am in the beginning stages of learning R and previously used
> Stata.  I have some Stata 9 files that I have tried to import into R, but it
> seems that the read.dta only works for Stata 8.0 and earlier versions...is
> that correct?  If so, what is the best way to import Stata 9.0 or later
> files into R?  Thanks for any pointers.

No doubt others with more stata skills will have better solutions, but 
this will work irrespective of version:

(1)  From stata, outfile [var1 var2] using filename.csv, comma
(2)  In R, data<-read.csv(filename.csv, header=T)

Jim Battista
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