On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Looks like a classic signed/unsigned confusion. Negative numbers
stored in ones-complement format in single bytes, but getting
interpreted as unsigned. A bug report could be a good idea if the
resident Stata expert (Thomas, I believe) is unavailable
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
The read.dta has translated the negative values as (256-deml).
Is this the kind of thing that is a bug, or have I missed something in
the documentation about the handling of negative numbers? Should a
formal bug report be filed?
A fixed version of
