Re: st: tabulate produces inconsistent output?

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I don't know what went wrong. Contacting tech support would be my
recommendation.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Christian Raschke
<crasch2@tigers.lsu.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for the answer. I did try a different and I achieve the expected
> result: -tab- works correctly. Also, a new Stata session on the same machine
> produces the expected result: -tab- works correctly. Even slightly different
> syntax in the same broken session (e.g. adding a subsetting if statement)
> works as expected.
>
> But the fact that something went very wrong and now I cannot reproduce it is
> precisely what worries me. I would at least like to know what happened to be
> sure to avoid that in the future.
>
> Thanks for all replies. Unless someone else has a hunch I will probably end
> up taking up the issue with State Tech support.
>
> Christian
>
>
> On 11/21/2011 10:20 AM, Richard Williams wrote:
>>
>> At 11:07 AM 11/21/2011, Christian Raschke wrote:
>>>
>>> Any other opinions?
>>>
>>> The only suggestion so far is that I update my Stata. But I am fully
>>> updated and there are no further updates available, so that is not the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> I am very concerned because there are no errors or any other problems
>>> whatsoever that would indicate a faulty installation or the like. There are
>>> no red flags, only clearly incorrect output.
>>>
>>> Christian
>>
>> Have you tried running it on another machine? If problems persist, I would
>> contact Stata Tech support, and include a copy of your data and program.
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