I have an issue that I suspect is a hardware or computer configuration problem and NOT Stata. I'm posting it to Statalist to see if others have run into the same problem so I might help IT here figure out a solution.
I'm working with Add Health data on a secure machine that is accessed via Remote Desktop. Everything was running fine until after the winter break when I started getting errors related to variables created in my do file. The screenshot below shows one such error. In this example, the do file creates a school poverty measure named "spoverty" by taking the average of 10 different estimates (pov1 thru pov10). The do file also reports descriptive statistics for the new variable and ends there. Immediately after running the do file, if I try to use the "spoverty" variable I just created, it's not there. I.e., from the command line I tried to run the same descriptive statistics and Stata reports that it can't find the variable; indeed, the variable is not in the data set though it surely was when running commands in the do file just seconds before.
Thanks in advance if you've had a similar experience and know the cause, or if you have diagnostic strategies I might try. Part of the challenge is that I can only access the data via Remote Desktop due to data license restrictions.
Cheers,
John
I'm working with Add Health data on a secure machine that is accessed via Remote Desktop. Everything was running fine until after the winter break when I started getting errors related to variables created in my do file. The screenshot below shows one such error. In this example, the do file creates a school poverty measure named "spoverty" by taking the average of 10 different estimates (pov1 thru pov10). The do file also reports descriptive statistics for the new variable and ends there. Immediately after running the do file, if I try to use the "spoverty" variable I just created, it's not there. I.e., from the command line I tried to run the same descriptive statistics and Stata reports that it can't find the variable; indeed, the variable is not in the data set though it surely was when running commands in the do file just seconds before.
Thanks in advance if you've had a similar experience and know the cause, or if you have diagnostic strategies I might try. Part of the challenge is that I can only access the data via Remote Desktop due to data license restrictions.
Cheers,
John
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