This does look like a bug. -local byopts- is defined
but apparently never used within the code, so
I suspect that your option disappears into nothingness.
Nick
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Eva Poen
> both in Stata 9.2 and 8.2, the -lowess- command does not respect the
> rows() or cols() suboption to by():
>
> -lowess price mpg, by(foreign, cols(1))-
>
> produces two columns instead of one, whereas
>
> -scatter price mpg, by(foreign, cols(1))-
>
> behaves as expected. Am I overlooking something very obvious here? The
> help file for -lowess- states that twoway options may be applied,
> including by() suboptions.
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