[haghish]

The function for loading data from R to stata was renamed st.load
Given you haven't noticed that, now also the readstata13 R package is required, instead of foreign (see the help file)
Nevertheless, Rcall version 1.3.5 should work just fine with data communication. So reinstall it from GitHub

[Anders Alexandersson]

Thanks, I have no known problem with using Rcall version 1.3.5.

I did not have readstata13 installed before. I still find load.data() in the documentation at http://www.haghish.com/packages/Rcall.php and at http://www.haghish.com/resources/pdf/Haghish_Rcall.pdf but I am behind a firewall, so sometimes I used outdated cached web pages.

[haghish]

Glad to hear that.

No you are right. I think I only changed the documentation in the Stata help file.

[Patrick Fang]

Glad to hear that.

No you are right. I think I only changed the documentation in the Stata help file.

Ａ problem has not been fully solved is how to read data from online sources. For example,
input:

.(test <- read.table("http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/data/test.txt", header = TRUE))

www.ats.ucla.edu\ invalid name
r(198);

[haghish]

I do not have this problem in the latest version. Please report your OS and Rcall version. I'm using Mac, Stata 14.1, Rcall 1.3.5

. Rcall clear
(R memory cleared)

. Rcall: (test <- read.table("http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/data/test.txt", header = TRUE))
   prgtype gender  id ses schtyp level
1  general      0  70   4      1     1
2   vocati      1 121   4      2     1
3  general      0  86   4      3     1
4   vocati      0 141   4      3     1
5 academic      0 172   4      2     1
6 academic      0 113   4      2     1
7  general      0  50   3      2     1
8 academic      0  11   1      2     1

[Patrick Fang]

I do not have this problem in the latest version. Please report your OS and Rcall version. I'm using Mac, Stata 14.1, Rcall 1.3.5

. Rcall clear
(R memory cleared)

. Rcall: (test <- read.table("http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/data/test.txt", header = TRUE))
prgtype gender id ses schtyp level
1 general 0 70 4 1 1
2 vocati 1 121 4 2 1
3 general 0 86 4 3 1
4 vocati 0 141 4 3 1
5 academic 0 172 4 2 1
6 academic 0 113 4 2 1
7 general 0 50 3 2 1
8 academic 0 11 1 2 1

I am using Win10, Stata 14.1, Rcall 1.3.5
if I input:
. Rcall: (test <- read.table("http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/data/test.txt", header = TRUE)) Rcall runs well

prgtype gender id ses schtyp level
1 general 0 70 4 1 1
2 vocati 1 121 4 2 1
3 general 0 86 4 3 1
4 vocati 0 141 4 3 1
5 academic 0 172 4 2 1
6 academic 0 113 4 2 1
7 general 0 50 3 2 1
8 academic 0 11 1 2 1

However, if I input:
. Rcall:
---------------------------------------------------- R (type end to exit) -----------------------------
. (test <- read.table("http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/data/test.txt", header = TRUE))
www.ats.ucla.edu invalid name
r(198);

[Patrick Fang]

After I updated the program, the above mentioned issue disappears. Thanks for your excellent work, Dr. Haghish.

[haghish]

glad to hear that.

[haghish]

This is just an update to note that the Rcall working paper is finished and accessible from http://www.haghish.com/resources/pdf/Haghish_Rcall.pdf

[Guest]

Thanks for the great effort by developing Rcall!
I can't get Rcall to work. Here is my input and what I get if I try to get Rcall to use the correct path for R:

. Rcall setpath "/usr/local/bin/r"
R was expected in:  /usr/bin/r Rcall could not find R on your system

invalid syntax
r(198);

I'm using Rcall version 1.4.3

[Anders Alexandersson]

What is the full path to your executable R? Which operating system do you use?

[Guest]

Using Terminal (on Mac) to ask Which R gives me the path used. I believe the path mentioned is typical for Mac OS?
I have tried the same path for rsource, and rsouce works fine after I defined the path mentioned.

I may be wrong, but I though that the example showed that Rcall does not register the path provided (adding /local/), and instead continues to expect R in the default location (default as defined by Rcall).

[Anders Alexandersson]

Which Mac OS do you have? Is it case-sensitive? You typed lowercase r

"/usr/local/bin/r"

whereas the Rcall documentation for Mac OS X states that the usual paths ends with uppercase R

/usr/bin/R

Therefore, double-check there is no typo. Better, show the output from the terminal just in case there is a typo. I cannot help more because I use Windows, not Mac OS. Haghish uses Mac OS. He typically wants (requires) you to test the latest version which is 1.5.0 so please do that.

[Guest]

Using the Terminal on Mac (Sierra) to find R gives:

GuestsiMac:~ Guest$ Which R
/usr/local/bin/R
GuestsiMac:~ Guest$

I have the latest version of Rcall that is provided with the following means of downloading:

net install Rcall, replace from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haghish/Rcall/master/")

The help file for Rcall says the version is 1.4.3. As previously stated, Rcall does not find R (3.3.2), it seems I am not able to change the location assumed by Rcall.

. Rcall setpath "/usr/local/bin/R"
R was expected in:  /usr/bin/r Rcall could not find R on your system

invalid syntax
r(198);

It would be great if anyone sees the problem.

[haghish]

the rcall setpath creates an ado file in the PLUS directory which stores the R path. can you confirm that the file is created?

type:

findfile Rpath.ado

if it finds it, then try to execute the file:

Rpath

confirm if there was no error. then we can continue. this is rather weird. I can't think of any reason why Rcall fails to access R on your machine. this just means that the path you are defining - for some reasons - is not accessible by Rcall.