Dear Statalist,
I am having problem merging two files. There in a note in [R] sort that
says that Stata sometimes decides that a dataset in not sorted when in
fact it is. Perhaps this is an instance of that.
The program I use is this:
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# delimit;
set more off;
set trace on;
use C:\GED\temp1.dta;
sort cell1 newvar;
save C:\GED\temp1.dta, replace;
use C:\GED\missing_data1.dta, clear;
sort cell1 newvar;
merge cell1 newvar using C:\GED\temp1.dta;
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However, I get the following error message:
. merge cell1 newvar using C:\GED\temp1.dta;
using data not sorted
r(5);
When I open any of the two datasets, and describe the variables, both
appear to be sorted by cell1 newvar. Thus I am not sure what I am doing
wrong.
Thank you in advance for your help.
DVM
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