You may already have a variable called _merge in your master dataset.
--- On Thu, 7/24/08, Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: merge command
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 9:51 AM
> Hi!
> I wrote merge command in do file and always run it without
> problem.
> Today i got strange message
>
> _merge invalid name
> r(198);
>
> The command is pasted below
>
> joinby studyid using "C:\Documents and
> Settings\Administrator\My
> Documents\Ziad_files\table01_080716.dta",_merge(_merge)
>
>
> Any tips?
> Thank you and best regards
> ziad
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