Edwin Leuven <[email protected]> uncovered a bug in -graph twoway histogram-:
> i get the following error message when making a histogram
>
> . hist v4, by(v1) discrete freq
> (start=0, width=1)
> __00000L not found
> no variables defined
> r(111);
>
> does anyone know what's going on?
Nick Cox <[email protected]> then mentions a possible source of the
problem, and suggests using -spikeplot-.
The above error message is the result of a limitation in how the bin centers
were generated. In the above case, the bin centers were not generated.
We have identified the problem, and already have a solution. As mentioned by
Nick, this problem only arrives when trying to categorize a variable with more
that 999 bins, even when the number of non-empty bins is much less than 999.
The fix will be available in the next ado-update.
--Jeff
[email protected]
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