Sure, it seems strange. But, crudely, Stata knows no semantics, only
syntax. From most syntactic points of view, unbalanced () [] {}
are problems and the sooner you find out about them the better.
As said in my last posting, Stata is misreading your input.
I'd class that a limitation of Stata's parser, from your and
any other user's point of view, but I wouldn't call it a bug
unless I had studied that topic for six months, written parsers,
and knew I could fix it. None of those are true!
Not that you are calling it a bug, but just in case anyone's tempted....
Nick
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Joseph McCrary
> Thank you Jeph and Nick. Jeph hit the problem. It works fine
> when I run
> histogram on a variable with balanced parentheses in the label (or no
> parentheses).
>
> It seems strange to me that what is in the label would make a
> difference
> in being able to do the plot.
>
> Jeph Herrin wrote:
> > Could it be related to the unbalanced "[" in the variable label?
> >
> > Just a thought.
> >
> > Joe McCrary wrote:
> >> I get a strange error message on a histogram command using
> Stata 9.2
> >> on Windows X64:
> >>
> >> . histogram mc2t0405
> >> (bin=20, start=44.09, width=2.7955)
> >> parentheses unbalanced
> >> r(132);
> >>
> >> However, I have no problem summarizing the same variable.
> >>
> >> . summarize mc2t0405, detail
> >>
> >> math % meeting and exceeding standards for all
> >> students [overall district standa
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Percentiles Smallest
> >> 1% 58.28 44.09
> >> 5% 65.81 53.72
> >> 10% 71.25 54.31 Obs 436
> >> 25% 81.455 55.38 Sum of Wgt. 436
> >>
> >> 50% 89.87 Mean 87.22103
> >> Largest Std. Dev. 10.67012
> >> 75% 95.58 100
> >> 90% 98.76 100 Variance 113.8515
> >> 95% 99.88 100 Skewness -1.049067
> >> 99% 100 100 Kurtosis 3.645815
> >>
> >> Has anyone seen this? It's happening for any variable I
> try to run a
> >> histogram on.
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