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st: re: mac data editor bug with last update
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"Airey, David C" <[email protected]>
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st: re: mac data editor bug with last update
Date
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:15:44 -0500
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> Can anyone else paste their data into the Mac data editor in the latest Stata 11.1?
>
> I keep getting this error:
>
> . *(1 variable, -1 observation pasted into data editor)
>
I found the problem.
Some minus signs in my data were in fact some other character that looked like a minus sign, except where longer (endash, emdash, whatever). When I replaced these with the keyboard minus sign, the data pasted and imported fine.
I have always found the Stata data editor very good about pasting small data sets in and use it a lot; this one I just missed on the data cleaning side.
-Dave
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