how to read a stata 15 data file in stata 13

[FAY FAY]

I was using the stata 15 one month free trail before, and I had the old version of stata13 updated.
Now , since the free trail has expired, and I have no intention to purchase the 15 version, cause I HAD THE 13 version already, how can I read the data files and do files by my stata 13?

[William Lisowski]

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there is no simple way. If you were using your free trial of Stata 15 to accomplish productive work you cannot reproduce in Staat 13 by rerunning do-files, then you should have been using the saveold command in Stata 15 to save your data in an earlier Stata format.

You could purchase a copy of StatTransfer, but since you seem averse to paying for software, that may not appeal to you.

You have posted this same question two subsequent times in less than an hour. See https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#adviceextras for advice regarding that.

[FAY FAY]

thank you very much William. , I think I will obtain the Stat Tranfer to translate the data
I am using the free trail to learn this statistical package, not much of productive work, but it is a little bit sad to know that my previous worked cant be open in stata 13.I will avoid posting same question in the future, Again, thank you very much for this information.