Re: st: Unbalanced parentheses in command when I'm not using anyparentheses

[Joseph McCrary <joe.mccrary@gmail.com>]

Thank you Jeph and Nick. Jeph hit the problem. It works fine when I run 
histogram on a variable with balanced parentheses in the label (or no 
parentheses).

It seems strange to me that what is in the label would make a difference 
in being able to do the plot.

Jeph Herrin wrote:

> Could it be related to the unbalanced "[" in the variable label?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Joe McCrary wrote:
> > 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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