Sorry about the needless anxiety - As Martin suggested, I did have an
old -sep-program lying around that dropped _all. Thanks, Martin
Al
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Weiss
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Re: Separation anxiety (extreme penalty if mistype
-separate- command)
If that is true, it is pretty serious. So I get "unrecognized command:
sep"
with my 10.1 Stata. Your error "invalid syntax" makes me think you have
a command that I do not have. What does -which sep- tell you?
HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 8:14 PM
Subject: st: Separation anxiety (extreme penalty if mistype -separate-
command)
> Hello - More than once I have inadvertently typed something like "sep
> var, by(cat)", when I meant to type "separate var,by(cat)" . The
> result is an error, but far worse, Stata wipes out my whole data set
> when I do this, or even if I simply type "sep":
>
>
> . use rad_protein_collapsed_4group_binomial.dta
>
> . des,short
>
> Contains data from rad_protein_collapsed_4group_binomial.dta
> obs: 24
> vars: 52 20 Nov 2008 12:42
> size: 4,464 (99.9% of memory free)
> Sorted by: rad time group
>
> . sep
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
>
> . des,short
>
> Contains data
> obs: 0
> vars: 0
> size: 0 (100.0% of memory free)
> Sorted by:
>
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