Albert --
Report the results of -update query- as well. This kind of strange
behavior is often the result of an incomplete update. On 3 flavors of
Windows, I have seen a lot of strange behavior with regard to
tempfiles (cannot write... or open... or somesuch messages) that
disappear on rebooting.
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Svend Juul <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Albert wrote:
>
> I have come across some strange problems with my Stata 10:
>
> Example 1:
>
> . reshape wide pre01 pe01, i(fy) j(region6) ;
> (note: j = 1 2 3)
> variable fy not found in using data
> r(111); t=0.25 16:51:33
>
> But the variable "fy" is clearly listed in the variable window. The
> data editor also shows the complete data column.
>
> Example 2:
>
> . outreg2 using table1, label word tstat bdec(4) tdec(4)
> symbol(***,**,*) alpha(0.01,0.05,0.1) replace ;
> variable __000008 not found
> r(111); t=1.42 16:48:50
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> I can not reproduce your problem. But putting a semicolon at
> the end of a command line gives me another error message:
>
> option ; not allowed
>
> And that happens both in Stata 9 and Stata 10.
>
> As Dan wrote: It would be helpful if you provided an exact
>
> cut-and-pasting of the relevant code.
>
> Svend
>
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