invalid observation number

[economoser]

When trying to use the -gcollapse- command I came across the following error repeatedly: the program would fail in the middle of execution, citing the following error:

'1.149e+08' invalid observation number

I attach the relevant part of the trace output from Stata below. Note that "1.149e+08" is the number of observations in my dataset, but I suspect that somehow this gets passed in the wrong format, causing this error:

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- end gcollapse.gtools_timer ---
    - }
    - }
    - if ( "`merge'" == "" ) {
    = if ( "" == "" ) {
    - qui {
    - if ( `=scalar(__gtools_J) > 0' ) keep in 1 / `:di scalar(__gtools_J)'
    = if ( 1 ) keep in 1 / 1.149e+08
'1.149e+08' invalid observation number
      else if ( `=scalar(__gtools_J) == 0' ) drop if 1
      else if ( `=scalar(__gtools_J) < 0' ) {
      di as err "The plugin returned a negative number of groups."
      di as err `"This is a bug. Please report to {browse "`website_url'":`website_disp'}"'
      }
      ds *
      }
      if ( `=_N' == 0 ) di as txt "(no observations)"
      local memvars `r(varlist)'
      local keepvars `by' `gtools_targets'
      local dropme `:list memvars - keepvars'
      if ( "`dropme'" != "" ) mata: st_dropvar((`:di subinstr(`""`dropme'""', " ", `"", ""', .)'))
      if ( (`=_N > 0') & (`=scalar(__gtools_k_extra)' > 0) & ( `used_io' | ("`forceio'" == "forceio") ) ) {
      qui mata: st_addvar(__gtools_addtypes, __gtools_addvars, 1)
      gtools_timer info 97 `"Added extra targets after collapse"', prints(`benchmark')
      local __gtools_iovars: list gtools_targets - gtools_uniq_vars
      mata: __gtools_iovars = (`:di subinstr(`""`__gtools_iovars'""', " ", `"", ""', .)')
      if ( `debug_io_read_method' == 0 ) {
      cap `noi' `plugin_call' `__gtools_iovars', collapse read `"`__gtools_file'"'
      if ( _rc != 0 ) exit _rc
      }
      else {
      local nrow = `=scalar(__gtools_J)'
      local ncol = `=scalar(__gtools_k_extra)'
      mata: __gtools_data = gtools_get_collapsed (`"`__gtools_file'"', `nrow', `ncol')
      mata: st_store(., __gtools_iovars, __gtools_data)
      }
      gtools_timer info 97 `"Read extra targets from disk"', prints(`benchmark')
      }
      local order = 0
      qui ds *
      local varorder `r(varlist)'
      local varsort `by' `gtools_targets'
      foreach varo in `varorder' {
      gettoken svar varsort: varsort
      if ("`varo'" != "`vars'") local order = 1
      }
      if ( `order' ) order `by' `gtools_targets'
      forvalues k = 1 / `:list sizeof gtools_targets' {
      mata: st_varlabel("`:word `k' of `gtools_targets''", __gtools_labels[`k'])
      }
      if ( "`unsorted'" == "" ) sort `by'
      }
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- end gcollapse ---
r(198); t=103.95 11:28:02

end of do-file
r(198); t=7348.34 11:28:02
r(198); t=7348.34 11:28:02

end of do-file
r(198); t=0.00 11:28:02

[mcaceresb]

This should be fixed. Let me know.