Continuing the thread about the problem of -merge- producing the
error "using data not sorted" when, under Stata 11, it is -merge-'s
responsibility to sort the data, Padmakumar Sivadasan
<[email protected]> wrote,
> As Martin suggested, I am including below the output when I run the
> -merge- with -set trace on-. Since I don't find an error notification
> at -checksort- I have included the entire output from the beginning
> of the -merge- command till the error message.
>
> As Bill suggested, I shall also send my data and log files to Stata
> technical support.
The trace was adequate: We have reproduced the problem and now
identified the cause. We will fix it in the next ado-file update.
In the meantime, Padmakumar worked his way around the problem:
> I got around the problem by sorting and saving the two datasets before
> merging them (as I would do in Stata 10).
Padmakumar's workround is now the official workaround until we get the
problem fixed.
-- Bill
[email protected]
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