st: RE: [UNCLASSIFIED] invalid 'Settings' in nearmrg

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

-nearmrg- is from SSC. The Statalist FAQ makes it clear that you should explain where user-written programs you use come from. 

I guess that you are 

1. using an operating system called Windows 

2. being bitten because a path to your temporary file contains spaces. 

You could 

. set trace on 

And see where -nearmrg- crashes. 

I guess further that you may need to clone -nearmrg- and change references to `work' to references to "`work'", i.e. add extra double quotes. 

The first author of -nearmrg- is Michael Blasnik. He hasn't been evident on Statalist for a while and may have dropped off, so if none of this works you should contact him. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Lucchino, Paolo

I'm having some problems getting the command nearmrg to work. I get this error message:  

invalid 'Settings' 
r(198);

Would seem like there is some syntax error in the coding?

Grateful for any advice you may have.

I'm pasting some example datesets and the commands I use.


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