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st: RE: RE: RE: help with error
I believe Nick's diagnosis is causing the error message you see (i.e.
that -"F"- is an invalid label name), but if you correct this, you will
soon experience Alan's!
David
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 07 June 2006 12:47
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Subject: st: RE: RE: help with error
Alan's diagnosis looks nearer the mark.
I didn't spot the basic error!
That doesn't rule out my diagnosis
absolutely.
Nick
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Nick Cox
> I guess that the global FM8X named within
>
> $FM8X
>
> is undefined. Alternatively, that you didn't really mean to put a
> dollar sign there. The same point will arise later in the do file.
>
> On a quite different point, these value labels are rather too long to
> show up well in tables and/or graphs.
> Rudy Fichtenbaum
>
> > Below is a do file generated by Dataferret downloaded by one of my
> > students. I know that he has to put in the path and file name. The
> > problem is that when he tries to run this file it generates the
> > following error:
> >
> > "F invalid name
> > r(198);
> >
> > end of do-file
> > r(198);
> >
> > I know this has to do with the label definition and that for some
> > reason Stata does not like the quotation marks around the F, M and U
> > but I can't figure out what is wrong.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rudy
> >
> > */************************************************/
> > */* Please scroll down to the INFIX step for */
> > */* instructions related to providing full path */
> > */* name for the input data file. */
> > */************************************************/
> > */ then scoll to the end of the file and provide the */ */ path for
> > where to store the data when finished */
> >
> > #delimit ;
> >
> >
> > label define FM5X
> > 0 "Unspecified (no longer in current payment status and has no FBR;
> > indicates a back payment)"
> > 1 "Living in own household ($531 for an individual and $796 for an
> > eligible couple)"
> > 2 "Living in another=EF=BE=92s household ($354 for an individual and
> > $530.6=
> > 7
> > for an eligible couple)"
> > 3 "Living in parent=EF=BE=92s household and child under 18 ($531)"
> > 4 "Living in Medicaid institution ($30 for an individual and $60 for
> > an eligible couple)"
> > ;
> > label define FM6X
> > 0 "Unspecified"
> > 1 "Aged individual living alone"
> > 2 "Aged individual living with spouse"
> > 3 "Disabled or blind individual living alone"
> > 4 "Disabled or blind individual living with spouse"
> > 5 "Disabled or blind child not living with parents"
> > 6 "Disabled or blind child living with one or more parent"
> > ;
> > label define $FM8X
> > "F" "Female"
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