spmat command error - name: to many specified r(103)

[Sharon Yang]

Good morning,

I am a new user of this forum and Stata 17 (SE) newbie too. I am grateful if you can help me figure out what is wrong here.

I just upgrade Stata to 17 SE to have the ability to include more variables, since the spatial weight matrix would be 3108 x 3108 in size. I also reset maxvar to 32767.

Below is my memory setting:
Memory settings
set maxvar 32767 2048-32767; max. vars allowed
set niceness 5 0-10
set min_memory 0 0-16g
set max_memory 16g 32m-1600g or .
set segmentsize 32m 1m-32g
set adosize 1000 kilobytes

However, when using spmat to obtain the summary of links, I got the error - name: too many specified r(103). Below is the information with tracing (set trace on).

. spmat summarize W  links
  --------------------------------------------------------------- begin spmat ---
  - version 11.1
  - gettoken sub 0 : 0 , parse(" ,")
  - local len = length(`"`sub'"')
  = local len = length(`"summarize"')
  - if `len'==0 {
  = if 9==0 {
    di as err "No subcommand specified"
    exit 198
    }
  - if `"`sub'"'==substr("idistance",1,max(5,`len')) {
  = if `"summarize"'==substr("idistance",1,max(5,9)) {
    SPMAT_idistance `0'
    }
  - else if `"`sub'"'==substr("contiguity",1,max(3,`len')) {
  = else if `"summarize"'==substr("contiguity",1,max(3,9)) {
    cap noi SPMAT_contiguity `0'
    SPMAT_drop_tempnames `matanames'
    }
  - else if `"`sub'"'==substr("use",1,max(3,`len')) {
  = else if `"summarize"'==substr("use",1,max(3,9)) {
    SPMAT_read `0'
    }
  - else if `"`sub'"'==substr("import",1,max(2,`len')) {
  = else if `"summarize"'==substr("import",1,max(2,9)) {
    SPMAT_import `0'
    }
  - else if `"`sub'"'==substr("export",1,max(2,`len')) {
  = else if `"summarize"'==substr("export",1,max(2,9)) {
    SPMAT_export `0'
    }
  - else if `"`sub'"'==substr("save",1,max(2,`len')) {
  = else if `"summarize"'==substr("save",1,max(2,9)) {
    SPMAT_save `0'
    }
  - else if `"`sub'"'=="drop" {
  = else if `"summarize"'=="drop" {
    SPMAT_drop `0'
    }
  - else if `"`sub'"'==substr("graph",1,max(2,`len')) {
  = else if `"summarize"'==substr("graph",1,max(2,9)) {
    SPMAT_graph `0'
    }
  - else if `"`sub'"'==substr("putmatrix",1,max(3,`len')) {
  = else if `"summarize"'==substr("putmatrix",1,max(3,9)) {
    syntax [ namelist(max=3)] [, * ]
    local w : word count `namelist'
    if `w'==0 {
    di "{err}name of spmat object required"
    exit 498
    }
    local objname : word 1 of `namelist'
    if `w'>2 local old _old
    cap noi SPMAT_putmatrix`old' `0'
    local rc = _rc
    if `rc' {
    capture SPMAT_drop_tempnames `matanames'
    capture mata: SPMAT_fcheck(`objname')
    if _rc capture mata mata drop `objname'
    }
    exit `rc'
    }
  - else if `"`sub'"'==substr("getmatrix",1,max(3,`len')) {
  = else if `"summarize"'==substr("getmatrix",1,max(3,9)) {
    syntax namelist(min=1 max=3) [, * ]
    local w : word count `namelist'
    if `w'>2 local old _old
    SPMAT_getmatrix`old' `0'
    }
  - else if `"`sub'"'==substr("permute",1,max(3,`len')) {
  = else if `"summarize"'==substr("permute",1,max(3,9)) {
    SPMAT_permute `0'
    }
  - else if `"`sub'"'==substr("dta",1,max(3,`len')) {
  = else if `"summarize"'==substr("dta",1,max(3,9)) {
    cap noi SPMAT_dta `0'
    SPMAT_drop_tempnames `matanames'
    }
  - else if `"`sub'"'==substr("summarize",1,max(2,`len')) {
  = else if `"summarize"'==substr("summarize",1,max(2,9)) {
  - SPMAT_summarize `0'
  = SPMAT_summarize  W  links
name:  too many specified
    return add
    }
  ----------------------------------------------------------------- end spmat ---
r(103);