Jim's advice is more flexible, but also note that Stata has a command 
called -saveold- that will save Stata datasets in version 7.0 format.

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Jim Battista wrote:

> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:24:23 -0400
> From: Jim Battista <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Political Methodology Society <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [POLMETH] importing Stata files into R
> 
> 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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