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More helpful error message for incorrect variable #58

Closed grahamimac closed 5 years ago

grahamimac commented 5 years ago

. educationdata using "school edfacts assessments", sub(grade=99 year=2017 fips=11)

Produces the following error: Error: The name of the category ('school', 'district', or 'college') is correct, but the name of the

dataset you chose is not. Please verify the list of allowed options by typing "help educationdata".

But educationdata using "school edfacts assessments", sub(grade_edfacts=99 year=2016 fips=11) clear staging works. So grade vs grade_edfacts is the issue, not assessments. So the error message could be more helpful.

ericatheresa commented 5 years ago

@grahamimac I think there were three things going on here: one was grade_edfacts, one was year, and one was staging -- although the Stata package was updated, the new data are not on production yet so can't be accessed via the Stata package without the staging option yet.

grahamimac commented 5 years ago

Correct, I put this up here because I didn't have time to dig into it, but now that I have I agree. Thanks Erica! Closing.