thank you,
miguel
On 2/7/06, Alan Riley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Miguel Portela ([email protected]) reports
> > I am using the command 'recode' combined with 'min' and an 'if'
> > condition. When the 'if' condition is not met for at least one
> > observation the recoded variable is replaced with missings. The
> > following example shows the problem:
> > ...
>
> Miguel is correct; we have reproduced this bug and found that it
> was introduced as an unintended side-effect of the change to -recode-
> made in the 12dec2005 ado update (see -help whatsnew- for details
> on that change).
>
> We will fix -recode- in the next ado update.
>
> In the meantime, a short-term workaround for Miguel is to rename
> 'recode.ado' in his Stata UPDATES directory. Miguel should type
>
> . which recode
>
> which will report something like
>
> . which recode
> C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\updates\r\recode.ado
> *! version 3.5.0 23nov2005
>
> If that is the version number Miguel sees, then he can
> rename that file using his operating system from 'recode.ado'
> to 'recode.old'. After that, -which recode- should report the
> location of the originally-installed recode.ado, and the
> behavior Miguel reported should go away:
>
> . which recode
> C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\base\r\recode.ado
> *! version 3.4.8 24may2004
>
>
> Alan
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