-spmat- error with idistance "coordinate variables must be numeric"

[Gbenga Adejafe]

Hello,
i couldn't find much about this by googling so hope someone can advise me here... I am trying to learn about spmat command, more precise how to make inverse distance matrix and i run into some issue with specific data that i am using. I use shp file (i couldn't attach it) that i created from FL_insurance_sample.csv that could be downloaded from the internet, so my guess is that something might be wrong with the shape file...Problem is that when i open and check dta files created with -shp2dta-, i do not see anything different than in other shp files that i have and do work. Thank you for any suggestion.... below are commands used

clear all
cd "C:\Users\...\Desktop\shape2stata manual\Insurance_US"
shp2dta using newshapefile, database(Ins_from_shp) coordinates(coor_from_shp) genid(id) replace
use Ins_from_shp, clear
spmat idistance idmat1 X Y, id(id) normalize(row)

Forgot to mention, creating contiguity matrix makes me no problems, so
spmat contiguity idmat_c2 using coor_from_shp, id(id)
spmat graph idmat_c2, name(mmax_contig)
these are working fine...

This is probably posted in the wrong forum i realize now )

[Friedrich Huebler]

This is probably posted in the wrong forum i realize now )

That's right. Please ask in the General forum.

[Gbenga Adejafe]

Thanks, as soon as i figure out how to delete this one, since i guess there shouldn't be two same questions..

[Friedrich Huebler]

Posts cannot be deleted but don't mind. Go ahead and ask again in the proper forum. However, I would recommend that you read the FAQ first, especially section 12, and revise your question based on the advice there.