read.dta for files from stata 9.0

Hi,

Albrecht Kauffmann wrote (18.03.2008):

Dear R-helpers,

if I want to read a .dta-file generated by stata 9.0 with read.dta
(foreign), I get the message
"not a stata version 5-8 .dta-file". I'm using R-2.6.2 and the latest
version of the foreign package. Has someone any hint?

Seems quite obvious to me: "not a stata version 5-8" means, that the 9.0 
version is not supported. So You should save the file in stata ver. 8 
format and then give a new try.

Hope this helps,
Kimmo