Alan Riley privately and kindly pointed to what I suspect
is the correct explanation.
-tokenize- does by default parse on spaces, but
it also allows options, so it is looking for them.
It can thus, understandably, get confused by unprotected commas.
It follows that I need to fix -makematrix- to
ensure that this doesn't happen.
Nick
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Nick Cox
>
> When you type what you did, the official Stata
> command -tokenize- called within -makematrix-
> fails because it objects, as reported, to
>
> tokenize r(chi2_adj) max(chiprob(r(df),r(chi2_adj)+1e-20),.0001)
>
> At this moment, I am hard pushed to see whose bug this is,
> mine or Stata's, as -tokenize- professes to tokenize
> on spaces unless otherwise instructed. The Statalist FAQ
> does advise me not to say that something is a bug, because
> it usually isn't. However, compare, for example,
>
> . local 2 : word 2 of r(chi2_adj)
> max(chiprob(r(df),r(chi2_adj)+1e-20),.0001)
>
> . di "`2'"
> max(chiprob(r(df),r(chi2_adj)+1e-20),.0001)
>
> which works as I expect. In short, -makematrix- can't cope with
> what you want, but in principle that might be my bug.
>
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