Re: st: Results to file problem

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

My guess:

r(adj) contains a vector. You can't write a vector as if it were a scalar.

You would need to do some pre-processing to split it into scalars.

Nick

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:50 AM, arosella <arosella@irccsdebellis.it> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm using Stata 12.1 on W7 and trying to write a txt file
> after the command -dstdize-
> Here my code:
>
> webuse hbp
> generate pop=1
> file open myfile1 using "E:\Alberto\tab_sep.txt", write replace
> set more off
> file write myfile1  "Tasa Cruda" _tab "Tasa Ajustada" ///
>                   _tab  "SE Tasa Ajus"   _tab  "LowerCI" ///
>                   _tab  "UpperCI"
> dstdize hbp pop age race sex, by(city year)
> file write myfile1  (r(crude)) ///
>               _tab  (r(adj))   ///
>         _tab  (r(se))    ///
>         _tab  (r(lb))    ///
>         _tab  (r(ub))
>
> file close myfile1
> set more on
>
> And here the erro I get:
>
> . file write myfile1  (r(crude)) ///
>>               _tab  (r(adj))   ///
>>                       _tab  (r(se))    ///
>>                       _tab  (r(lb))    ///
>>                       _tab  (r(ub))
> type mismatch
> r(109);
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