Sorry about that, I had realized I was wrong but wasn't yet clear how
I was wrong. It appears that when I copy & pasted the code into the
do-file editor, some of the whitespace was bad whitespace that messed
things up. -clonevar- worked great once I cleared that up.
Thanks for the code example, Nick. It's not quite what I was after,
but it might do the trick.
-Timothy
On 11/5/05, Timothy Dang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ignore my comment on -clonevar-, there's something else going on.
>
> On 11/5/05, Timothy Dang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 11/2/05, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > -1. What is Excel?
> >
> > It's this virus I often find on other people's computers.
> >
> > Your other points are good, as well. I certainly do not want to "throw
> > out" these data points, as they're important. It's just a matter of
> > how to best show the whole of the data.
> >
> > I'm just now experimenting with the code you included, and I've come
> > up with what appears to be an oddity with -clonevar-. Since I see
> > you're the author, Nick, possibly you can clear it up for me.
> >
> > (BTW, I should have mentioned I'm using Stata version 8.2 on a Mac)
> >
> > This style of command:
> > clonevar temp = y`i'
> >
> > doesn't seem to work, getting "unrecognized command: invalid command name"
> >
> > although I have no trouble with:
> > gen temp = y`i'
> >
> > I've tried checking out the clonevar.ado code, but I'm still not
> > proficient enough to figure it all out.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > Timothy O'Neill Dang / Cretog8
> > 520-884-7261
> > One monkey don't stop no show.
> >
>
>
> --
> ------------------------------
> Timothy O'Neill Dang / Cretog8
> 520-884-7261
> One monkey don't stop no show.
>
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Timothy O'Neill Dang / Cretog8
520-884-7261
One monkey don't stop no show.
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