Invalid Name Error Stata
Invalid initial values become missing val ues stata has ve di erent types of numeric variable.
Invalid name error stata. The local macro keyvar will be empty so stata will see those commands as if we ran incomplete commands like. Stata with a list of pitfalls to point out. Generate hours 2 replace x 5. Thus to uniquely identify each of the observations requires both name and date and i type.
Sort name date. The problem is that i is being evaluated in the first line and becomes a blank. Another pattern is names and labels that are both string. The documentation also notes that variable date records when the observation was made.
I did note that ice had 643 hits in the stata list archive. Owner statalist hsphsun2 harvard edu mailto owner statalist hsphsun2 harvard edu on behalf of solorzano jenniffer sent. Forvalues i 1 6. I m writing my own maximum likelihood program to run in stata 10 for windows and whenever i run ml check on the code it returns invalid name after parsing the first line of the actual likelihood function.
If you create a a stata kernel conf prior to running python m stata kernel install that contains stata kernel stata path path it should fix it. On mon 27 7 09 hidden email wrote. Perhaps i receive data on persons over time along with the claim that the id variable is name. Replace x keyvar 5 5 invalid name r 198.
2 the gotchas here is a countdown of my top 10 gotchas listed in order of increasing likelihood of causing problems. In stata local macros and temprorary variable names are referred to as what ever rather than what ever notice the distinction. Wednesday june 18 2008 4 57 pm to. Dear nick to disagree slightly the purpose of writing the email to the list was to inform users and to elicit comments and suggestions from list users who might have had this problem.
I am not sure if this will prevent the install from writing any useful defaults to that file during install or not. An example of that second pattern would be a choice whose name is private hospital and whose label is private hospital. I suspected that patrick royston might be too busy to address this problem at this time although i also sent him an email about it. The correct form is.