Re: st: Insheet Dataset Problem

[Ted Anagnoson <anag999@silcom.com>]

The example at the bottom of p. 274 of the [D] manual makes it clear that 
insheet expects to have all the variables specified, not too few nor too 
many.

You might try infile instead. You can _skip(#) any number of variables (p. 
252), and p. 248 has an example with comma separated data.

Ted Anagnoson
Calif. State University, LA





At 10:05 PM 4/8/2007 -0500, Benjamin Allaire wrote:

> Hi Statalisters -
> I had a quick question, I'm trying to import a dataset into intercooled
> stata and it contains too many variables, so I was trying to insheet the
> variables I need.  It's a csv file and I tried the following command:
>
>
>
> insheet district month year using cfy06e3.csv, c names clear
>
>
> And got the following error:
>
> too few variables specified
> error in line 3934 of file
> r(102);
>
>
> which is odd considering there are only 3932 observations and I don't
> particularly expect to get an error like this with the insheet command.
> Does anyone have any good ideas on a work around?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ben
>
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