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st: -contract- hard-coded to generate frequencies with datatype long, can result in missing


From   László Sándor <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: -contract- hard-coded to generate frequencies with datatype long, can result in missing
Date   Thu, 9 May 2013 18:34:27 -0400

Hi all,

This is just a public service announcement, so you won't lose the
better half of your workday like I just did:

-contract- seems a nifty little official command for a single purpose,
but bit me hard: it is hard-coded to generate frequencies with the
data type long, which can then silently flip over to missing if you
have big data with more than 2 billion observations (probably coming
from fweights from aggregates though, as in my case).

Probably -collapse (count) _freq=byvar1, by(byvar1 byvar2)- is the way
to go. I just knew -collapse- does not like string variables, but for
byvars it does.

My bad.

Laszlo
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