I think it's your variable labels:
. sysuse auto
. clonevar weight2 = weight
. label var weight2 "funny[label"
. histogram weight2
(bin=38, start=1760, width=81.052632)
parentheses unbalanced
The single [ is causing Stata to misread.
Nick
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Nick Cox
> Are both executable and ados -update-d?
>
> Does this happen if you try variables with no
> variable label?
>
> Can you reproduce with the auto dataset?
Joe McCrary
> > I get a strange error message on a histogram command using Stata 9.2
> > on Windows X64:
> >
> > . histogram mc2t0405
> > (bin=20, start=44.09, width=2.7955)
> > parentheses unbalanced
> > r(132);
> >
> > However, I have no problem summarizing the same variable.
> >
> > . summarize mc2t0405, detail
> >
> > math % meeting and exceeding standards for all
> > students [overall district standa
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Percentiles Smallest
> > 1% 58.28 44.09
> > 5% 65.81 53.72
> > 10% 71.25 54.31 Obs 436
> > 25% 81.455 55.38 Sum of Wgt. 436
> >
> > 50% 89.87 Mean 87.22103
> > Largest Std. Dev. 10.67012
> > 75% 95.58 100
> > 90% 98.76 100 Variance 113.8515
> > 95% 99.88 100 Skewness -1.049067
> > 99% 100 100 Kurtosis 3.645815
> >
> > Has anyone seen this? It's happening for any variable I try to run a
> > histogram on.
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