st: [UNCLASSIFIED] invalid 'Settings' in nearmrg

["Lucchino, Paolo" <Paolo.Lucchino@hmtreasury.gsi.gov.uk>]

Hello all, 

I'm having some problems getting the command nearmrg to work. I get this error message:  

invalid 'Settings' 
r(198);

Would seem like there is some syntax error in the coding?

Grateful for any advice you may have.

I'm pasting some example datesets and the commands I use.


Thanks,
Paolo


file ageinfo1 
        +----------------------------+ 
        id   gender   age   income 
        ---------------------------- 
1.      1        1    34       23 
2.      2        2    40       43 
3.      3        1    25       21 
4.      4        1    12       56 
5.      5        2    18       75 
        +----------------------------+ 
file ageinfo 2 
        +-----------------------------+ 
        id   gender   age   income 
        ----------------------------- 
1.      12         2    34       12 
2.      213        2    40       32 
3.      314        1    25       32 
4.      415        1    12       12 
5.      516        2    18       65 
        +-----------------------------+ 

use ageinfo1
sort gender age
save, replace

use ageinfo2
sort gender age
nearmrg gender using ageinfo1, nearvar(age) genmatch(_match)

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