Re: st: RE: Too few quotes error

["Michael C. Morrison" <Morrimic@niacc.edu>]

Thanks for replying NIck.  I tried the clearing suggestion but I receive 
the same error per the following:

. local rn

. do "C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Temp\STD00000000.tmp"

. // calculate elasticities at deciles over full sample:
. forvalues i=10(10)90 {
  2. quietly margins, eyex(_all) at((p`i´) _all)
  3. local rn "`rn´ p`i´"
  4. matrix nu = nullmat(nu) \ r(b)
  5. }
too few quotes
r(132);

end of do-file

I set trace on and it gives me this:

  - version 11
    - .cmdline = `"`e(cmdline)'"'
    = .cmdline = `"regress gaspc  Income Gasp PNC PUC PPT PD PN PS"'
    - .ZERO = `"`0'"'
    = .ZERO = `", eyex(_all) at((p
too few quotes


Any help would be appreciated.


Mike


On 3/28/2011 3:53 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
> Looks OK quotequotawise.
>
> But if you did this before, made some mistake, and then corrected, your local macro `rn' might have a lot of stuff in it left over like dirt on a shoe.
>
> So try once more but first go
>
> local rn
>
> to clear that macro.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Michael C. Morrison
>
> This is probably a question for Kit Baum, although I'm sure others could
> handle it. I'm trying to duplicate his efficient (and greatly
> appreciated) code found in "/Stata tip 88: Efficiently evaluating
> elasticities with the margins command"/, The Stata Journal (2010), 10,
> Number 2, pp. 309-312 . When I run this code
>
> // calculate elasticities at deciles over full sample:
> forvalues i=10(10)90 {
> quietly margins, eyex(_all) at((p`i´) _all)
> local rn "`rn´ p`i´"
> matrix nu = nullmat(nu) \ r(b)
> }
> matrix rownames nu = `rn´
> matrix list nu, format(%6.3f) ti("Elasticities")
>
> I receive the following error "too few quotes" right after }
>
> What am I missing?
>
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