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From | Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu> |
To | "<statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | Re: st: date("01jan1960", "DMY") does not seem to work with -if- qualifier of the command -tablist- |
Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:07:18 +0000 |
<> Try changing your last line to: tablist bday name if statadate > `=date("01Jan1960", "DMY")' - Eric __ Eric A. Booth Public Policy Research Institute Texas A&M University ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu On Mar 21, 2011, at 7:22 PM, Jeremy Page wrote: > I am a frequent user of the user generated command -tablist- and I > have run into a behavior that I can not explain. I am trying to use > Stata's -date- command with the -if- qualifier to restrict > observations from displaying in -tablist-. When I attempt to do this > there appears to be a problem. I am able to use the -date- command to > restrict observations with -tabulate- and I am able to restrict > observations in -tablist- with a local variable being defined by the > -date- command but not with -tablist-. It is my understanding that > the -if- qualifiers across all programs should act the same. Am I > missing something? I have included an example below using a Stata > supplied data set. > > I am using version 1.2 of -tablist- which can be found at -findit > tablist- and my version of Stata is 10.1 on a Windows XP machine. > > Thank you for your help. > > Best, > Jeremy > > > > **********begin example*************** > clear > use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r10/datexmpl.dta > > > gen statadate = date(bday, "DMY") > > format statadate %td > > list statadate > > display date("01Jan1960", "DMY") > > ***it works with tabulate > tab bday name if statadate > date("01Jan1960", "DMY") > > > ***it works with a local variable > local dte = date("01Jan1960", "DMY") > tablist bday name if statadate > `dte' > > ***it does not work with tablist > tablist bday name if statadate > date("01Jan1960", "DMY") > > > ************end example*************** > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/