STATA 13 - Not enough columns to load data

[malawton]

To whom it may concern

I have been using runmlwin for some time in STATA 12 and had some programs that were working perfectly. My department has now upgraded to STATA 13. Whilst running a do file (with exactly the same data) runmlwin would no longer work (but worked fine in STATA 12).

I get the following error message

" error whilst obeying batch file
C:\Users\epmal\AppData\Local\Temp\ST_0a00007.tmp at line number
15:
RSTA 'C:\Users\epmal\AppData\Local\Temp\ST_0a000002.tmp'

Not enough columns to load data"

Any help greatly appreciated.

[ChrisCharlton]

Stata updated the format of .dta files (which runmlwin uses to transfer the data to MLwiN) in version 13, and I suspect that you have a version of MLwiN from before this occurred. If you update to the most recent version of MLwiN then this should fix the problem you are seeing. You could instead/also update your version of runmlwin to the most recent version where we have used the "saveold" command, which would cause Stata to save the data in version 12 format.

[malawton]

Thanks for that, it works fine now that I have updated runmlwin using the command:

adoupdate runmlwin, update