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Re: st: alternative to do with nostop option


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: alternative to do with nostop option
Date   Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:08:41 -0500

Your question implies that you regard the errors that might arise as (say) serious and less serious. Fair enough, but see the problem from Stata's point of view: How is it supposed to tell which is which?

You must tell it. So, there is not a solution at the level of -do-, as that would pass to Stata the responsibility of deciding, which is really
yours.

Rather, you can specify which is which by using -capture- to eat less serious errors.

Nick
permanent address: [email protected]

kokootchke wrote:


Is there a way to tell Stata to continue running a do file even if *SOME* of the commands would give an "error"?
I know that in general I could use -do myfile, nostop- and then Stata won't stop at all if it finds an error. But I don't like this because I'd actually like it to stop if there's an actual error... but if I say something like -drop x- and x doesn't exist, I don't really think of it as an error, so I'd like it to keep going ONLY IN THIS CASE.

Is there something that would make this happen? Or am I asking for too much here?
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