Re: st: Bug in Stata 13 (Mac) with compress duplicating variables?

[Wayne Folta <wfolta@mac.com>]

I poked around and poked around, and I may have found something. I haven't had the chance to reproduce everything, but the dta that my data originally came from was created by exporting from R using the 'foreign' package's function to export a dta. (I have since saved over the original with saves from Stata, unfortunately, so have to recreate it.) It's possible that this introduced a problem that eventually tripped up compress.

Both year and month were integers -- and not factors -- and I first though that things went wrong with compress because I remember seeing that month was compressed to a byte (makes sense, it's only 1..12), which might be coincidence or might not. I can't remember the name of the third variable, but year and month were adjacent and in the middle of the data set, column-wise, so all three might've been adjacent.


> How about describe? ds? and what happens if you save the dataset? Are
> there two variables with the same name that end up in the saved file?
> Does the number of variables increase after compress? or a variable
> got renamed incorrectly? does the problem occur only to variable year?
> or other variables in the dataset? How is 'year' special? (e.g. this
> is the only variable that got compressed, or the last variable, or the
> first variable, etc).
> Sergiy


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