Dear Nick,
Thank you for your help. In fact, I think Stata is a great software to do econometrics instead of blaming it. I just try to learn how to write concise Stata program. Actually, I've make great progress these days.
Warm regards,
Maoyong Fan
>I don't think it's good strategy to put all the onus on Stata
>of catching errors.
>
>In this case a Statalist answer to one of your recent questions
>can be used to identify a solution.
>
>foreach v of varlist _all {
> tab `v'
> histogram `v', ...
> quantile v'. ...
>}
>
>could be done better like this
>
>ds, has(type numeric)
>foreach v of var `r(varlist)' {
> ...
>}
>
>Also, don't do
>
>local filename = "..."
>
>do
>
>local filename "..."
>
>This was aired on Statalist very recently
>
>Nick
>[email protected]
>
>Maoyong Fan
>
>> The following is the error message before it stops:
>>
>> varlist: m11_q02: string variable not allowed
>> r(109); t=23.39 10:56:34
>>
>>
>> But the program is supposed to continue when coming across
>> such kind of error.
>
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