30 Jan
2003
30 Jan
'03
7:17 p.m.
Thanks for the quick reply, Gary. I'm using Stata/SE 7.0. I've
tried reading in text files, but Amelia crashes when I do that. At
first I thought it might be due to the size of the file I was trying
to read in (773K), so I tried it with a much smaller one (18K) and it
did the same thing.
I've tried text files with various extensions, including .raw, .out,
.txt, .asc and .csv, with similar results.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Strom
At 6:57 PM -0500 1/30/03, Gary King wrote:
I can't say much about running this on a Mac, but
you might have a
different version of stata file than we support. The easiest way around
the problem is to write out an ascii (text) data set from stata and read
it into Amelia. We wrote the text input and so we know it works; for
other data files, we use a public domain data transfer package.
Gary
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On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Strom C. Thacker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having some problems reading data into Amelia. When I try to
> read a Stata file (.dta), it tells me:
>
> Error: Program was unable to read file contents
> Please check instructions to make sure input is of correct type
>
> When I try to read it in text format, it just shuts down/crashes (the
> program, not the operating system).
>
> I'm a Mac user, so I'm trying this on Virtual PC (though I've tried
> it on a PC down the hall and had the same problems).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Strom
>