We have the same problem. And we reported as bug: https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15166
Hope someone can help Orvalho On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:05 PM, voldermatt <matt.pece...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks in advance. > > I pass data sets between R and Stata and think dta files would be the best > files for this. To do this I can use package foreign or package memisc. I > mostly use foreign, although have used memisc and this problem mostly > didn't > happen, but created errors at other times. > > I have a csv data set (and created a test case) with with at least one > column completely missing. This eventually creates the error. My list of > commands are: > > data <- read.csv(file, colClasses = "character") > write.dta(data, newFile) > read.dta(newFile) > Error in read.dta(newFile) : > a binary read error occurred > > The colClasses specificiation is important. This causes the error. Stata 10 > and Stata 11 can read the file. Stata 12 is completely lost looking at the > dataset. I know this is an R forum, but the data set acts very strangely in > Stata so I will continue. For my larger data set if I drop one of my > variables, all variables that are all missing are dropped. Either there is > an issue with how the data sets are being saved/stored, or I am doing > something incorrectly by specifying the "character" option in read.csv. > > I run R version 2.15.1. > > Matt > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Read-dta-and-Write-dta-Binary-Data-Error-tp4655754.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
