[tinfah chung]

Hi sorry to bother you again. I tried running the same code on another computer and I got this error message.
.
***Step 2. Now create a temporary files using
. tempname anees_uroot

. tempfile unitroots

.
. ***Step 3. Then you need to write to the temporary files as to what should be the
. *names of the headers of the table. Also you need to specify which file to use and
. *what to add to the file as headers.
.
. postfile `anees_uroot' str12 name dfuller_statistic dfuller_pvalue dfuller_lags perron_statistic pperron_rho pperron_pvalue pperron_lags using `unitroots'
invalid 'Tin'
r(198);

end of do-file

r(198);

Is step 3 sensitive to the spacing? or can we break into 2 lines to run.
Thks

[William Lisowski]

I am thinking that the problem is that on the new system, the path to the directory that the tempfile is written in has a space in the name of one of the parent directories. If you run the following commands on that system, you will be able to see the path and see if it has a space in it somewhere.

tempfile unitroots
display "`unitroots'"

Note carefully the sequence of quotation marks - a normal double-quote " then the left single-quote ` and after the text, the right single-quote ' and the another normal double quote " .

So if a space in the path name is the problem you can solve it by using the same double-quotation marks in your command.

postfile `anees_uroot' str12 name dfuller_statistic dfuller_pvalue dfuller_lags perron_statistic pperron_rho pperron_pvalue pperron_lags using "`unitroots'"

[tinfah chung]

Hi sorry to bother you again. I tried running the same code on another computer and I got this error message.
.
***Step 2. Now create a temporary files using
. tempname anees_uroot

. tempfile unitroots

.
. ***Step 3. Then you need to write to the temporary files as to what should be the
. *names of the headers of the table. Also you need to specify which file to use and
. *what to add to the file as headers.
.
. postfile `anees_uroot' str12 name dfuller_statistic dfuller_pvalue dfuller_lags perron_statistic pperron_rho pperron_pvalue pperron_lags using `unitroots'
invalid 'Tin'
r(198);

end of do-file

r(198);

Is step 3 sensitive to the spacing? or can we break into 2 lines to run.
Thks

[William Lisowski]

Post #18 seems to be a copy of post #16 which was addressed in post #17.

[tinfah chung]

Sorry to bother you. I tried running the same code on another computer and I got an error message after step 3 as follows:
postfile `ctf_uroot' str12 name dfuller_statistic dfuller_pvalue dfuller_lags perron_statistic pperron_rho pperron_pvalue pperron_lags usin
> g `unitroots'
invalid 'Tin'
r(198);
Can step 3 be broken into 2 lines rather one line.
Tq

[tinfah chung]

Sorry about post #20. I didnt see that you have replied.

[tinfah chung]

Your suggestion on post #17 works. Tq

[Attaullah Shah]

I am posting one additional method of collecting statistics, writing them to a matrix and then exporting the matrix to Word with asdoc

ssc install asdoc
webuse air2

* Create a matrix of 2 x3 dimensions
mat stats = J(2,3,.)
dfuller air

* Write the required statistics to the matrix
mat stats[1,1] = r(Zt)
mat stats[1,2] = r(p)
mat stats[1,3] = r(lags)

* generate another variable for example purposes
gen air2 = air+air[_n-1]/2

* Again esitmate the dfuller command for the second variable and write its statistics to the matrix
dfuller air2, lag(2)
mat stats[2,1] = r(Zt)
mat stats[2,2] = r(p)
mat stats[2,3] = r(lags)

* Send the output to MS Word with asdoc

asdoc wmat, mat(stats) replace rnames(Air1 Air2) cnames(Z p-value lags) title(Table 1: Results of dfuller tests)

And the results look like