r(132) too few quotes

[Daniel Moore]

Hi all,

For the life of me I cannot figure out where the error lies in my code. I was hoping a second set of eyes could help me out.

qui reghdfe dry_yield num_pest_per_hh, a(villgis year)
outreg2 using coef1.tex, replace title(Dry Yield and Pesticide Use per HH) ctitle(OLS) addtext(Village FE, X, Year FE, X)

which returns

"C:\Users\Daniel's PC\ado\plus/o/outreg2.ado
too few quotes
too many ')' or ']'
r(132);
"
I am guessing it has to do with where the file is attempting to save, but I can't figure it out. Thank you for reading.

[Joro Kolev]

Type

set trace on

repeat what you have done.

Then look up what has happened to the point where you see a message in red. This is the offending line.

Copy the line with say three lines after it, and say 7 lines before it, and paste it here.

[Daniel Moore]

- di as txt `"`ffn'"'
= di as txt `"C:\Users\Daniel's PC\ado\plus/o/outreg2.ado"'
C:\Users\Daniel's PC\ado\plus/o/outreg2.ado
- if "`all'"=="" {
= if ""=="" {
- ret local fn `"`ffn'"'
= ret local fn `"C:\Users\Daniel's PC\ado\plus/o/outreg2.ado"'
- exit
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- end findfile ---
- local place=substr(`"`r(fn)'"',1,`=length(`"`r(fn)'"')-11')
too few quotes <--------Error 1
= local place=substr(`"C:\Users\Daniel's PC\ado\plus/o/outreg2.ado"',1,)-11')
too many ')' or ']' <--------Error 2
tempname myplace
cap file open `myplace' using `"`place'outreg2.pref"', write text replace
cap file write `myplace' "" _n


I have not seen this trace method before, thank you for introducing it to me.

[Joro Kolev]

For error 1 I cannot see anything wrong with the expression preceding it.

For error 2 there is indeed only one opening parenthesis, and there are two closing parenthesis.

Try to reinstall -outreg2-, close your Stata, open it and try again.

[Daniel Moore]

Thank you for the response. I've done as you suggested but unfortunately I am still receiving the same error. Is the error an underlying issue with outreg2?

[Joro Kolev]

I think that there is an underlying issue with the very misfortunate name you have chosen for your computer. Here I am replicating the problem when using the name for your comupter:

. local fn `"C:\Users\Daniel's PC\ado\plus/o/outreg2.ado"'

. local place=substr(`"`fn'"',1,`=length(`"`fn'"')-11')
too few quotes
too many ')' or ']'
r(132);

And here I remove the apostrophe from the name of your computer, and everything works fine:

. local fn `"C:\Users\Daniels PC\ado\plus/o/outreg2.ado"'

. local place=substr(`"`fn'"',1,`=length(`"`fn'"')-11')

[Joro Kolev]

Try to work from a directory which is named normally, e.g.,

C:\Research

and I think the problem will disappear.