Stata is objecting to lines of the form
if <condition> { <action> }
as the braces are no longer allowed
in such single-line statements. I'll send
a version to Kit Baum, the author,
with this fixed.
Nick
[email protected]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Richard
> Williams
> Sent: 30 January 2004 11:32
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Problems with outtable
>
>
> At 12:05 PM 1/30/2004 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
>
> >Dear Statalisters,
> >
> >I have an up-to-date installation of Stata (8.2). I am
> trying to use the
> >command outtable which I obtained from SSC. But my attempts
> result in an
> >error message:
> >
> >. matrix A = 2,3\4,5
> >. matrix list A
> >
> >A[2,2]
> > c1 c2
> >r1 2 3
> >r2 4 5
> >
> >. outtable using test, mat(A)
> >program error: matching close brace not found
> >r(198);
>
> I just downloaded -outtable- and got the same problems you
> did. However,
> it also came with -outtable7- (meant for version 7 of Stata)
> and it seemed
> to work fine (at least it didn't produce an error and it did
> produce an
> output file; I don't know if that file is correct though).
>
> So, make sure you have the latest versions of -outtable- and see if
> -outtable7- will do what you want. Perhaps some recent
> change in Stata has
> inadvertently broken the newer -outtable- command.
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