[R] Read stata file from internet?

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Try this:

tmpfile <- tempfile()
download.file('http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta',
tmpfile)
risk2 <- read.dta(tmpfile)
unlink(tmpfile)


On 26/01/2008, Michael Kubovy <kubovy at virginia.edu> wrote:
> Dear R-helpers,
>
> I would like to have my students read into R an online Stata dataset: 'http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta'
>
> I was able to read it into R after downloading it and converting it
> with StatTransfer (http://www.stattransfer.com/).
>
> Here is what happens when I use read.dta() as I would use read.table():
>
> > require(foreign)
> > risk2 <- read.dta('http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta')
> > Error in read.dta("http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta
> > ") :
> >   unable to open file
>
> Then I try:
>
> > riskTmp <- read.table('http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta')
> > Warning message:
> > In read.table("http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta
> > ") :
> >   incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/risk_project.dta'
> > head(riskTmp)
> >              V1
> > 1 l\001\001\300
> > 2        .%9.0g
> > 3 \342CNTL%8.0g
> > > risk2 <- read.dta(riskTmp)
> > Error in read.dta(riskTmp) : first argument must be a file name
>
> So I tried to save riskTmp as a file, and read it in using read.dta():
>
> > save(riskTmp, file = 'risk.dta')
> > risk2 <- read.dta('risk.dta')
> > Error in read.dta("risk.dta") : not a Stata version 5-8 .dta file
>
> But that presumably garbled the file. (Indeed, StatTransfer told me so.)
>
> Would it be appropriate to request this as a feature of
> foreign::read.dta()? (Thomas Lumley is the author.)
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Henrique Dallazuanna
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