-tsspell- is a user-written command from SSC. Please remember to spell
out where user-written commands you use come from, as requested in the
FAQ.
I am the user-writer, so to speak.
Your problem was reported to me privately by someone who might prefer
not to be named. The short version is that this problem is not the fault
of -tsspell- but a consequence of incompletely updated official Stata.
Here is a longer version:
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Anon:
Thank you, your guess was right on target. I (re)updated the executable
and ado files and -tsspell- now works wonderfully.
NJC:
> I believe that the problem you are experiencing is nothing to do with
> -tsspell- [...]
> You are seeing error
> messages to do with Mata, but -tsspell- nowhere uses Mata directly.
> Indeed -tsspell- predates Mata and was written entirely in language
> available in Stata 7, as a glance at the code will show. However
> -tsspell- does call other commands which may now use Mata under the
> hood.
>
> My guess is that there is some structural problem with your Stata.
> This kind of problem I've seen before when people
> have not -update-d their executable and ado files in sync, and
> sometimes for other reasons.
Anon:
> First, let me thank you for the tsspell function. It is essential in
> much of the work I do using longitudinal data.
>
> I have recently upgraded to Stata10 on a 64-bit Windows Vista
> platform, and I am having problems with the your tsspell function. I
> have installed other ado files and they work fine, and I'm able to
> open the tsspell help file just fine and locate the tsspell files in
> the Stata ado folder. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled multiple
> times.
>
> Is there a problem with tsspell that you are aware of? Here is an
> example of the error message I get:
>
> ======Stata example======================================
>
> . tsset id time
> panel variable: id (strongly balanced)
> time variable: time, 0 to 20
> delta: 1 unit
>
> .
> . tsspell move
> _TS_p_delta_getnumb(): 3499 strtoreal() not found
> _TS_p_delta_increment(): - function returned error
> _TS_p_delta(): - function returned error
> <istmt>: - function returned error
> r(3499);
>
> end of do-file
> ============================================================
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Nick
[email protected]
Dmitriy Krichevskiy
I am trying to use -tsspell- command on the panel data and I keep on
getting an error message:
r(3499) stating
_TS_p_delta_getnumb() 3499 strtoreal() not found
_TS_p_delta_increment() - function returned an
error
_TS_p_delta() - function returned
an error
<istmt>
btw, I am trying to see summary of spells for the entire panel dataset
by summarizing binary variable depicting individual's status in the
appropriate period. Thanks for all your help.
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