Donal O'Neill
>
> Some time ago I wrote a program to estimate counterfactual
> wage densities
> using Stata 5. The program worked fine but when Stata 6
> came out the same
> program would no longer run. Instead at certain points in
> the program I
> would get error messages like "_00005Q not found". It was
> not obvious to me
> at the time what had changed so my solution then was to
> continue using
> Stata 5 for this program but Stata 6 for everything else. I
> now use Stata 8
> but continue to use Stata 5 for this earlier analysis.
> After a couple of
> years I've finally decided its probably time to sort this
> out. Any ideas as
> to why the original program did not transfer from version 5
> to 6 (or 7 or
> 8) would be appreciated. The program itself is quite long
> but the error
> message seems to be occurring with simple "generate" or
> "replace" commands.
This would be a reference to a temporary name
which Stata regards as unassigned. I can't immediately
imagine why this would have been broken by
a change from Stata 5 to Stata 6, but it
is difficult to debug blindfold.
You could
. set trace on
and show us some or all of the log file up
until it crashes. This might be shorter
than the original program.
Nick
[email protected]
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