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Re: st: label variable: curious response
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: label variable: curious response
Date
Thu, 30 May 2013 17:13:15 +0100
Your double quotation marks appear to be a non-standard character. I
make it ASCII 152, but other people may be working with a different
standard ASCII standard, so to speak.
Stata has no inherent objection to being "in the South". That would be
hypocritical.
Nick
[email protected]
On 30 May 2013 16:38, Michael McCulloch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'm scratching my head over the following error message:
>
> . sysuse nlsw88, clear
> . gen wt = int(uniform()*10)
> . la var south ”Lives in the south”
>
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
>
>
> Even though the Help Label instructions show examples of labels containing spaces, that error message is not reported if I change the command to:
> . la var south ”Lives”
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