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Re: st: Keeping Stata from abbreviating variables


From   [email protected] (Vince Wiggins, StataCorp)
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Keeping Stata from abbreviating variables
Date   Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:29:07 -0600

Thomas Speidel <[email protected]> reports that -graph box- with more
than one yvar and with the option -over()- fails with an error message if you
have previously turned off variable abbreviation, -set varabbrev off-.

> I have noticed a potential problem with the unabbreviating command
> set to permanent.  If you instruct STATA not to abbreviate variables
> (i.e. .set varabbrev off, permanently), and then try a
>
> . graph box var1, over(var2)
>
> I get an error message of this type:
> [...]

-graph box- is indeed not fully compliant with the new ability to set variable
abbreviation off.  The error occurs only in the specific case of more than two
yvars combined with the -over()- option.  This will be fixed in the ado
update.


-- Vince 
   [email protected]

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