Type mismatch error when using putpdf text to display local value

[Holley Shafer]

I'm using a loop to create a unique pdf report for each member in list var and need to display the N and response rate for that member in the report.
I have defined the local value, which seems to run fine:
foreach section of local sections {
local clean = strtoname("`section'")
count
local responses = r(N)
local response_rate = round((`responses' / `enrolled_val') * 100, 0.1)

However when I try to display it in the report using put pdf text I get a type mismatch error, when I use the
putpdf text("Response Count: `responses'")
putpdf text("Response Rate: `response_rate'")

When I try to use
putpdf text("Response Count: `r(N)'")
I get the same.

How can I display the numeric value of r(N)?
Thank you!

[Andrew Musau]

For some reason, it appears that putpdf text expects a space between the command and the expression. Compare:

sysuse auto, clear
putpdf begin
summarize mpg
putpdf paragraph
putpdf text("Response Count: `r(N)'")
putpdf text ("Response Count: `r(N)'")

Res.:

. putpdf text("Response Count: `r(N)'")
type mismatch
r(109);

. 
. putpdf text ("Response Count: `r(N)'")

.

[Clyde Schechter]

Now that Andrew has solved that problem, I think you will uncover other difficulties with your code. Perhaps you have abbreviated and simplified your presentation of the code, but taking literally what you show in #1, your loop will produce exactly the same values of responses and response rate for every section, because your definitions of the local macros -responses- and -response_rate- do not depend on -`section'- and will be calculated using the entire data set. In addition to that, your local macro -enrolled_val- is undefined and will cause a syntax error in the -local response_rate- command.

Did you perhaps intend

count if var == `"`section'"' // OR SOMETHING LIKE THIS
local responses = r(N)

And perhaps local macro -enrolled_val- is defined somewhere before the loop, or in earlier code inside the loop which was elided from the presentation in #1?