st: re: unrecognized command merge in reshape

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Dan said that he had trouble reshaping after kdens2. I did the first  
example in kdens2 help file adding saving(dan):

. kdens2 linv lmkt,saving(dan)

. use dan,clear

. desc

Contains data from dan.dta
  obs:         2,500
 vars:             5                          13 Apr 2005 20:01
 size:        72,500 (99.9% of memory free)
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-------
              storage  display     value
variable name   type   format      label      variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-------
_i              float  %9.0g
_j              byte   %9.0g
_lmkt           double %10.0g                 Log[Mkt value]
d               double %10.0g
_linv           float  %9.0g
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-------
Sorted by:  _i  _j

. reshape wide d _lmkt _linv,i(_i) j(_j)
(note: j = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23  
24 25 26 27 2
> 8 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50)

Data                               long   ->   wide
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-----
Number of obs.                     2500   ->      50
Number of variables                   5   ->     151
j variable (50 values)               _j   ->   (dropped)
xij variables:
                                      d   ->   d1 d2 ... d50
                                  _lmkt   ->   _lmkt1 _lmkt2 ... _lmkt50
                                  _linv   ->   _linv1 _linv2 ... _linv50
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-----

I wonder if Dan's copy of Stata is up to date. What does update query  
say?

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

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