Re: st: Error when appending

["Neil Shephard" <nshephard@gmail.com>]

On 6/7/07, nkiso@worldbank.org <nkiso@worldbank.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> When I tried to append two datasets, I receive an error message,
> "varlist not allowed".  (Please see below for the stata screen.)
> What does this mean?
>
> Thank you so much.
>
>
>
> *************** Stata Screen
> *****************************************************
>   use "Baseline\NKdta\merge1_v.dta"
>
>   append "Followup\NKdta\merge2_v.dta"
> varlist not allowed
> r(101);
Elementary, see the help page for the -append command (-man append-).

Your missing "using" from you command, try...

<-----snip---->
use "Baseline\NKdta\merge1_v.dta"
append using "Followup\NKdta\merge2_v.dta"
<-----snip---->

Neil
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