Thanks for the help. But now I've been struggling with trying to use the data. I've finally figured out that R seems to be separating the data into groups such that it is creating a matrix with fewer columns and more rows. So it takes the first X variables and populates n rows with the data, but the next group of variables start at row n+1 instead of column X+1. Anyone know what I need to do? Thank you. Laurel From: gov2001-l-bounces(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu [mailto:gov2001-l-bounces@lists.fas.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Colin Sullivan Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 9:54 AM To: Class List for Gov 2001/E-2001 Subject: Re: [gov2001] co-authors Laurel - you have to use the "foreign" library; then it will find the command. Colin On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Laurel Grassin-Drake <lgrassin@mit.edu<mailto:lgrassin@mit.edu>> wrote: Dear all, I know this is pretty basic, but how do I import the data set for this week's pset into R? I've tried read.dta, but the program tells me that it couldn't find the function. Thanks. Laurel _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l@lists.fas.harvard.edu<mailto:gov2001-l@lists.fas.harvard.edu> http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l