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Re: st: command "merge" can't be used in some Stata version, why?
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David Kantor <[email protected]>
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Re: st: command "merge" can't be used in some Stata version, why?
Date
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:20:53 -0400
At 04:50 AM 11/2/2011, Nick Cox wrote:
-merge- has been a built-in command in Stata for several versions.
[...]
To be precise, -merge- became an ado file at some point -- serving
as an interface to the built-in command, which was renamed to -_merge-.
But either way, it's been around a long time. Perhaps the original
poster has a corrupted or absent merge.ado.
--D
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