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Re: st: How to prevent break in .do file when no observations
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Re: st: How to prevent break in .do file when no observations 
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Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:33:37 -0400 (EDT) 
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Paul O'Brien wrote:
Stata ends an do-file if there are no observations:
. table agecatkt31 if primary == "Other chemical" & ffy==1, row
no observations
r(2000);
can i prevent the .do file breaking when there are no observations?
See the "Remarks" section of the capture command help file.
  capture noisily table ...
Dan Feenberg
thanks,
paul
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