I routinely do some database work with R and work with large dbf databases that I import. After updating my version of R to 4.2.1 (from 3.3.2), when trying to import the dbf database files using the read.dbf function from the foreign package it takes forever to load compared to before. I double-checked and tried using my older version of R and my code worked fine as before.
Any ideas as to why this is the case and how to fix it? I'm a casual user and wouldn't know the difference between the packages and newer versions of R and wonder whether there might be a compatibility issue with my datasets.
Thanks.