st: problem with the "/" symbol in matrix rownames for Stata 10 (was "xml_tab" and "streg")

["Zurab Sajaia" <zsajaia@hotmail.com>]

Daniel,

Thanks for pointing to this problem, I tried the same for Stata version 10 
and got the error you're getting.


issue is that in Stata 9 (as well as in the previous versions) it was 
perfectly ok to have "/" symbol in the matrix rowname:

.matrix A = 4
.matrix rownames A = equation:/name

.matrix list A

symmetric A[1,1]
               c1
equation:/name   4

if I write exactly the same in Stata 10:

.matrix rownames A = equation:/name
/name invalid name
r(198);

and this error persists even if I set version to 9 or 8

Can anybody suggest what might be the solution here?

thanks,
Zurab

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Klein" <klein@corporate-finance-mannheim.de>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: st: Re: "xml_tab" and "streg"



> Hi Zurab,
>
> Thanks for your help. I have the same xml_tab version. However, when I
> run your program it still generates an error:
>
> /ln_sig invalid name
> r(198);
>
> I noticed that the ado was written for version 8. My version is 10. So I
> tried
>
> vers 8: xml_tab, replace save(c:\test)
>
> , which most times generated the same error message. Sometimes it worked
> but I could not infer the reason for that. The version command works
> strange...
>
> -Daniel
>
> Zurab Sajaia schrieb:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > I have -xml_tab- version 3.35 17Oct2007 available from SSC
> > and just tried following:
> >
> > sysuse auto, clear
> > stset length
> > streg price rep78 trunk turn, distribution(gamma)
> >
> > xml_tab, replace save(c:\test)
> >
> > it worked.
> >
> > Could you give me the full command line you use?  if you have the same
> > version but still get an error, there might be a case that it happens
> > only for specific combination of options.
> >
> > Best,
> > Zurab
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Klein"
> > <klein@corporate-finance-mannheim.de>
> > To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:43 AM
> > Subject: st: "xml_tab" and "streg"
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I really like xml_tab which is a usefull tool to export tables of
> > > estimates directly to Excel. However when I estimate a survival model
> > > with streg and weibull distribution I get the following error message.
> > >
> > > /ln_p invalid name
> > > r(198)
> > >
> > > This is not the case when I assume an exponential distribution since in
> > > that case the parameter "p" (or ln_p) is not estimated. I guess xml_tab
> > > has a problem with the "/". estout works fine but I would more like to
> > > further use xml_tab.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know a workaround? Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > -Daniel
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