Re: st: -icd9- crashes Stata

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

Jeph,

you need to  move "check" to right after the "icd9"

Rich

On 12/12/13, 8:24 AM, Jeph Herrin wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> I have been trying to use the Stata command -icd9- to process a variable
> containing (yes) ICD9 codes. The same fragment of code ran correctly in
> the past, but now
> 
>  capture : icd9 dxcode, check gen(invalid)
> 
> causes Stata to crash every single time. The dataset is large (~60m obs,
> 5gb) but Stata has no problem eg merging or sorting the same dataset, so
> I don't see why that should be an issue. Any thoughts? Any alternatives?
> I do not often work with ICD9 codes.
> 
> -dxcode- is str7, if that matters.
> 
> thanks,
> Jeph
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