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| From | Richard Herron <richard.c.herron@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: reclink type mismatch error |
| Date | Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:10:55 -0400 |
With the updated -reclink- (Thanks, Michael!) I get a different error. Going through 166316 observation to assess fuzzy matches, each .=5% com > plete ...........too few quotes r(132); I am using the same master and using data. I am comfortable discarding observations if doing so generates some matches. Is there a -subinstr()- or filter that I can apply to get past this error? Thanks! On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Michael Blasnik <michael.blasnik@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry I haven't gotten around to sending the updated reclink to SSC. > I will email a copy directly to the poster. > > Michael Blasnik > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Richard Herron > <richard.c.herron@gmail.com> wrote: >> I get a "type mismatch" error using the current version of SSC's >> -reclink-. This is the same error as a post from two weeks ago >> (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-10/msg00290.html -- new >> code from the author resolved this error). The call and error are: >> >> * begin console output >> . reclink initials full_name first_name last_name /// >>> using $DATADIR/finance_faculty, /// >>> idmaster(index_rm) idusing(index_ff) gen(score) /// >>> orblock(initials) >> >> 48 perfect matches found >> >> Going through 166316 observation to assess fuzzy matches, each .=5% complete >> .............type mismatch >> r(109); >> * end console output >> >> For what it's worth, I converted the using file from unicode to ascii >> using Python (it is scraped from a website) before generating the .dta >> file in Stata. I converted the master file from a SAS data file to a >> Stata data file using SAS (it comes from Wharton's WRDS database), but >> I am not sure of its encoding. >> >> Is there a way to guarantee the master data file is ascii, also? Or is >> there a way to troubleshoot this error or convert the offending >> characters without knowing them a priori? >> >> Please let me know if any other information would be helpful. >> >> Thank you! >> * >> * For searches and help try: >> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/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/faqs/resources/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/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/