Re: st: -icd9- crashes Stata

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

Thanks Richard - though I typed it wrong in the post, I have it correct 
in the code:

 capture : icd9 check dxcode, gen(invalid)

so that is not the problem.

Jeph


On 12/12/2013 8:37 AM, Richard Goldstein wrote:
> Jeph,
>
> you need to  move "check" to right after the "icd9"
>
> Rich
>
> On 12/12/13, 8:24 AM, Jeph Herrin wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have been trying to use the Stata command -icd9- to process a variable
> > containing (yes) ICD9 codes. The same fragment of code ran correctly in
> > the past, but now
> >
> >   capture : icd9 dxcode, check gen(invalid)
> >
> > causes Stata to crash every single time. The dataset is large (~60m obs,
> > 5gb) but Stata has no problem eg merging or sorting the same dataset, so
> > I don't see why that should be an issue. Any thoughts? Any alternatives?
> > I do not often work with ICD9 codes.
> >
> > -dxcode- is str7, if that matters.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Jeph
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