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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.