Thank you all very much. And I tried both methods
(insheet...,name; change first variable to numeric
one)in a case on hand, they worked great!
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--- Ernest Berkhout <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 11:51 28/02/2005, Ron�n Conroy wrote:
>
> >You can force -insheet- to read the first line of
> the incoming file as
> >names, using the -names- option. I cannot figure
> out why, on some
> >occasions, Stata treats the first row as data, but
> let's face it, it does
> >a pretty good job at guessing whether there are
> names there or not. Safest
> >thing is to give the -names- option explicitly
> unless you can vouch for
> >Stata's behaviour in advance.
>
> It happens mostly to me when the first column is a
> string variable. If the
> first row in a column is a string, it can be (A) a
> variable name OR (B) the
> first value of a string variable. If the second row
> is a string as well,
> then option (B) might probably be the most plausible
> for Stata.
> When the first variable is not a stringvariable i
> never encounter the
> problem mentioned...
>
>
>
>
>
> Ernest Berkhout
> SEO Amsterdam Economics
> University of Amsterdam
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