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st: Re: st: Re: st: RE: Calculating the shortest distances between observations (based on longitude and latitude)
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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st: Re: st: Re: st: RE: Calculating the shortest distances between observations (based on longitude and latitude)
Date
Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:12:40 +0000
I can only conclude that the SSC documentation for -nearstat- (SSC) is
out-of-date and needs to be fixed. That's the author's responsibility.
So, you cannot use -nearstat- unless an older version is provided to
you or you upgrade your Stata (not STATA) to 12.
Nick
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Rüdiger Vollmeier
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the insightful replies.
>
> Nearstat actually seems to look pretty much like what I ve been
> looking for. However, it seems that there are some problems with the
> STATA versions. I am using STATA 11 and it is stated that nearstat can
> be used by STATA 10 or higher.
>
> However, whenever I run nearstat, I get the following error message:
> (nearstat_calcdist() in lnearstat, compiled by Stata 12.0, is too new
> to be run by
> this version of Stata and so was ignored)
> <istmt>: 3499 nearstat_calcdist() not found
> r(3499);
>
> Confusing right? Does anybody know why this happens?
>
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