Read Stata 13 file in R

Question

Is there a way to read a Stata version 13 dataset file in R?

I have tried to do the following:

> library(foreign)
> data = read.dta("TEAdataSTATA.dta") 

However, I got an error:

Error in read.dta("TEAdataSTATA.dta") :
not a Stata version 5-12 .dta file

Could someone point out if there is a way to fix this?

Answer 1

There is a new package to import Stata 13 files into a data.frame in R.

Install the package and read a Stata 13 dataset with read.dta13():

install.packages("readstata13")

library(readstata13)
dat <- read.dta13("TEAdataSTATA.dta")

Update: readstata13 imports in version 0.8 also files from Stata 6 to 14

More about the package: https://github.com/sjewo/readstata13