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RE: st: reclink -- type mismatch
From
David Sikkink <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: reclink -- type mismatch
Date
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 10:17:39 -0400
It works great. Thanks for your work on this.
--David
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Blasnik
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 4:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: reclink -- type mismatch
Just to complete this thread, I emailed a newer version of reclink directly to the poster that should (I hope) fix this bug. I plan to submit the updated version to SSC soon
Michael Blasnik
author of reclink.ado
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 4:35 PM, David Sikkink <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Stata users,
>
> When I run reclink to match records across two datasets, I get a type mismatch error. Here is my command and the result:
>
>
> *********************
> reclink varlabel using TestVCVarName1 , idu(VCID) idmaster( QualID)
> gen(myscore)
>
> 1 perfect matches found
>
> Going through 1980 observation to assess fuzzy matches, each .=5%
> complete ...........type mismatch r(109);
>
> *********************
>
> Any ideas? I know that "varlabel" does have a lot of special characters in it, but not sure why that would lead to this error, a type mismatch. I have found that any parentheses need to be removed from "varlabel" in order to get reclink to work. But this new error is surprising.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>
> --David
>
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> David Sikkink
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> University of Notre Dame
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