passing arguments

[Ian Ferguson]

I am using bayesmh in Version 14.1but having problems passing an argument was per below

name: <unnamed>
log: /Users/ianferguson/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/plus/cred.smcl
log type: smcl
opened on: 16 Feb 2016, 14:50:34

. sysuse auto
no; data in memory would be lost
r(4);

. sysuse auto,clear
(1978 Automobile Data)

. do cred.do mpg
file cred.do not found
r(601);

. do cred.do mpg

. program cred
1. version 14.1
2. args xx
3. summarize ‘xx’, meanonly
4. */ etc */
. end

.
end of do-file

. cred mpg
‘xx’ invalid name
r(198);

Why is ‘xx’ an invalid name?

[Clyde Schechter]

Because `xx' is not the right way to de-reference the macro xx created by -args-. To de-reference a macro, you have to start with the left-quote character, which is different from the regular quotation mark. On a US keyboard it is located to the left of the 1! key. It should be `xx', not 'xx'.

[Ian Ferguson]

Thanks. That is what I thought and had previously tried without success. I also tried alt ] and alt shift ] without success.

But in updating my Stata 14 on my iMac (my main machine) just now, I get a message that 'Some Unicode functions will not behave correctly because ICU dat file icudt54l.dat cannot be found at directory etc etc". I guess I will have to update the ICU package, if I can figure it out.

I also updated Stata on my MacBook and got no such message. The Program then ran as it should and passed the argument successfully.

[Clyde Schechter]

Good luck with your iMac. I'm afraid I have nothing to offer you in the way of help with that. There are a number of people on the forum who are Mac experts, and perhaps one of them will chime in here.

[Paul-Henri Wicky]

dear all,
I use STATA 15 on my Mac, a recent message similar to the one you've discussed about for a while put me in difficulty...
can you help with " icudt54l.dat "
Thank you for your help,
best,
PH