Padmakumar Sivadasan <[email protected]> is using Stata 11
and reports obtaining the following output,
. merge 1:1 cik fyear using compustat
using data not sorted
r(5);
even though the manual states that you are not required to have the
datasets sorted before using -merge-.
Martin Weiss <[email protected]> helpfully wrote,
> -merge 1:1- performs its -checksort- as one of its first tasks. So
> -set trace on- and report what happens there...
Padmakumar can do that and then we can see if we can determine the source
of the problem here on the list, but I recommend that Padmakumar go to
Stata technical support with this problem.
I have tried to reproduce this problem, and I cannot.
The first request Technical Services will make is that Padmakumar send
a log and a copy of the data so we can reproduce the problem here.
-- Bill
[email protected]
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