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Re: st: too few quotes
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: too few quotes
Date
Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:19:53 +0000
In general, variable labels are no problem for plots and indeed are
usually invaluable for interpretation of a graph and for later
presentation. So, the best fix overall is to have variable labels that
don't include unmatched quotation marks.
Nick
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Keniajin Wambui <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Nick for the heads up
> the variables had labels and dropped them and and problem solved
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'd guess at an unmatched quotation mark in one of your variable
>> labels. Look closely at the results of
>>
>> . describe ntemp nweight
>>
>> and delete any such. If that doesn't work, show us the results of
>> -update query-.
>>
>> Nick.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Kennedy Mwai and/or Keniajin Wambui wrote:
>>
>>> I am on Windows 64 bit. I want to do a scatter plot for temp against weight
>>> *two scatter ntemp nweight, pstyle(p1)
>>> but i run this command on Stata 12 and get this error
>>>
>>> *too few quotes
>>> stata(): 3598 Stata returned error
>>> _series_save_labels(): - function returned error
>>> <istmt>: - function returned error
>>>
>>> What could be the problem, I am expecting a scatter plot of the both
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