Good afternoon,
The -egen, xtile- command/function from the egenmore package by Nick Cox is exhibiting some concerning behaviour: it works under Stata 11,12,13, but it generates the following error message under Stata 15:
I believe the problem is a point in the code of - _gxtile- where an outdated command which fails under Stata 15 (but works under Stata 11,12,13) is used:
My questions is, Is this not supposed to never happen? Are the commands / functions in Stata not supposed to be backward compatible?
The -egen, xtile- command/function from the egenmore package by Nick Cox is exhibiting some concerning behaviour: it works under Stata 11,12,13, but it generates the following error message under Stata 15:
Code:
. webuse nlswork, clear (National Longitudinal Survey. Young Women 14-26 years of age in 1968) . . keep idcode year ln_wage hours . egen xtiles = xtile(ln_wage), by(idcode) too many values r(134); .
Code:
. levels idcode too many values r(134); . levelsof idcode ******** output omitted, but it works
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