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Re: st: Unexpected errors using levelsof


From   Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Unexpected errors using levelsof
Date   Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:52:14 -0400

Jose <[email protected]>:
After -levelsof-, the local has compound double quotes. Try
display `"`j'"'
instead of
display "`j'"

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Morales Arilla, Jose
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! Hope all is well.
>
> I am getting unexpected errors using levelsof on the WDI database.  For
> instance:
>
>     levelsof countryname if countrycode=="BRA", local(j)
>     `"Brazil"'
>
>     display "`j'"
>     `Brazil"'" invalid name
>     r(198);
>
> Without running display, I believe this problem manifests in a larger code
> trying to reference countryname of a given countrycode:
>
>     .         local y BRA
>     .         preserve
>     .         keep if countrycode== "`y'"
>     (12985 observations deleted)
>     .
>     .         levelsof countryname, local(j)
>     `"Brazil"'
>     .
>     .         #delimit ;
>     delimiter now ;
>     .         twoway
>     >         (scatter FR_INR_RINR NE_GDI_TOTL_ZS, mlabel(year))
>     >         (line FR_INR_RINR NE_GDI_TOTL_ZS)
>     >         (lfit FR_INR_RINR NE_GDI_TOTL_ZS)
>     >         , title("Sensibility of Investment to Interest Rate")
> subtitle("`j'")
>     >         ytitle("Real Interest Rate") xtitle("Gross Capital
> Formation") legend(off) note("Data source:  World
>     >  Development Indicators, 2013");
>     too few quotes
>     r(132);
>
>
> I get the same errors despite the countryname (I thought it may be due to
> the fact that some countrynames have spaces, hence messing with the code)
>
> Do you have any thoughts on what may be going on and how to solve it?
> Alternatively, is there any other code that could help me do the same?
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