Re: st: RE: Asking Stata to ignore "no observations" when runningregressions

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

At 01:49 PM 1/27/2005 +0000, Nick Cox wrote:
> Check out
>
>         capture
>         _rc
>
> and various FAQs, including
>
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/foreach.html
>
> In fact, you might start with that FAQ.
>
> More generally, there is much in the FAQs and
> the Stata Journal that provides guidance in
> this territory.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> [...]
I might add that in the situation described, a useful way to use -capture- 
is with -noisily-, as in...
capture noisily ...your_command...

That way, if the command succeeds, you see the output.  Otherwise, 
-capture- suppresses output.
-- David


David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404
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