Advice please about sersets. I am making repeated calls to -xtline,
overlay- and saving the resulting graphs. The "t" dimension is up to
17, and the "i" dimension may refer to several hundred persons
("panels" in Stata manual jargon). I then -graph combine- several
groups of graphs.
When I later, in the same session, try and -graph use- one of the
combined graphs, I get a "too many sersets" error message, and no
graph drawn. A portion of the error message is reproduced below; if no
Break is issued, I get several screens full of red.
I seem to be able to get round this problem only by issuing a -serset
clear- command, or by starting a new Stata session.
I've looked at -help serset-, and [P] serset, and don't get much
illumination from them. So, my questions are:
* what is the "number of sersets" capacity of a Stata session, and can
it be changed? (e.g. via -set memory-?)
* any tips to pass on concerning the number of sersets generated by
different graphics commands?
* [StataCorp] would it be possible to have more informative error
messages in this case please?
. dir llabinc_females_all.gph
864.4k 5/19/09 14:01 llabinc_females_all.gph
.about
Stata/MP 10.1 for Windows
Born 02 Feb 2009
Total physical memory: 2097151 KB
Available physical memory: 2097151 KB
. memory
bytes
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Details of set memory usage
overhead (pointers) 1,684,384 0.32%
data 79,587,144 15.18%
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data + overhead 81,271,528 15.50%
free 443,016,464 84.50%
----------------------------
Total allocated 524,287,992 100.00%
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Other memory usage
set maxvar usage 2,001,730
set matsize usage 1,315,200
programs, saved results, etc. 719,965
---------------
Total 4,036,895
-------------------------------------------------------
Grand total 528,324,887
. graph use llabinc_females_all.gph
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unrecognized command: < invalid command name
invalid syntax
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unrecognized command: < invalid command name
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error (199) reading file
Error in file, skipping lines:
<EndSerset>
<EndItem>
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unrecognized command: < invalid command name
invalid syntax
error (199) reading file
Error in file, skipping lines:
<EndSerset>
<EndItem>
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error (1) reading file
too few quotes
graph1.gversion invalid name
<<<< break >>>>>>
r(198);
Stephen
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Professor Stephen P. Jenkins <[email protected]>
Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research
University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K.
Tel: +44 1206 873374. Fax: +44 1206 873151.
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk
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http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/iser/teaching/module-ec968
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