Re: st: collapse syntax error

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Ramani Gunatilaka wrote:


> Thanks, Nick and Louis.
> About updating to version 8.2.
> My computer used to be connected to the Monash Uni network and had a proxy host. But now it is directly connected to the internet so I turned set httpproxyhost off. (I have sent several queries earlier about this while at Monash and got sorted out about needing to set the proxyhost).
> But even though I turned the thing off because I have direct broadband access, I can't get through to the website on <findit upadate>. The webpage which tells you how to update executables if you do not have direct access from Stata, has only Stata version 8 born Jan 2003 and not the later versions.
> A further problem. This e-mail address  used to be on Statalist but I unsubscribed as I have finished my course at Monash. I then wrote in from my Yahoo account and got myself on the mailing list. Unfortunately, although I get mails from Statalist to the Yahoo account, I can't send any - I have been struggling with collapse for three days. So I got back into my Monash account, subscribed again and managed to send a query from that account. Can someone please explain to me why this should be so?
> Sorry this is a long mail - but this internet thing is really bugging me.
> Regards,
> Ramani
>
> n j cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>  
>
> > In addition, this looks like a -contract- problem.
> >
> > Nick
> > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> >
> > louis boakye-yiadom
> >
> > Your code looks fine to me. How about updating to version 8.2 and trying
> > again?
> >
> > Ramani
> >
> > I am trying to calculate household size using collapse. The dataset has
> > two variables, a unique household ID <uhhid> and the serial numbers of
> > the >household members <hhmem>.
> > This is the code I used and the error I get.
> >
> > . /*create variable household size*/
> > . use rindvar02, clear
> >
> > . keep uhhid hhmem
> >
> > . sort uhhid hhmem
> >
> > . gen num=1
> >
> > . collapse (sum) hhsize=num, by(uhhid)
> > invalid syntax
> > r(198);
> >
> > I am using
> > Stata/SE 8.0 for Windows
> > Born 30 Jan 2003
> > Copyright (C) 1985-2003
> >
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