RE: st: weight option after syntax

["Jun Xu" <mystata@hotmail.com>]

Sorry that I forgot to mention that I am using Stata 9.1.



Jun Xu
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Sociology
Indiana University at Bloomington





> From: "Jun Xu" <mystata@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: weight option after syntax
> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:14:19 -0500
>
> I think I must miss something important here. I am trying to write a 
> command that simply invokes a stata command repeatedly and collect some 
> eret information. The following is the very beginning part of it (also 
> where the problem lies), and I am having problems with the [pw] option. I 
> inserted display commands to check if I am getting macro's that I want. Any 
> thoughts? Thanks a lot!
>
> ==========================
>  cap program drop mycmd
>   program mycmd, rclass byable(recall)
>    version 8.0
>    syntax namelist [if] [in] [pw]
>    gettoken subcmd namelist: namelist
>    gettoken lhs namelist: namelist
>    loc rhs "`namelist'"
>
>    di in r "`subcmd'"
>    di in r "`lhs'"
>    di in r "`rhs'"
>    di in r "`weight'"
>    di in r "`exp'"
>
>  end
>
> ============================
>
> Everytime I launch the command by specifying weight option alone, I always 
> get an error message. Note that lwg is a real variable name and I have a 
> working data set in memory.
>
> ******
> . mycmd this is another issue [pw=lwg]
> [ invalid name
> r(198);
>
> end of do-file
> r(198);
> ******
>
> However, if I work off a real data set and specify if condition before 
> [pw=lwg], everything works fine. Note here k5 is a real variable.
>
> ******
> . mycmd this is another issue if k5==3 [pw=lwg]
> this
> is
> another issue
> pweight
> = lwg
> ******
>
>
> Jun Xu
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Department of Sociology
> Indiana University at Bloomington
>
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