Drawing maps: command _fr_area_parse_and_log is unrecognized

[Titir Bhattacharya]

Hi all,

This is the first time I'm trying to draw maps on stata using "india_st.shp" and "india_st.dbf". I'm using Stata 15.
I used

spshape2dta india_st

to create two .dta files

file india_st_shp.dta created
  file india_st.dta     created

Following this guide I next did

clear

. use india_st.dta
encode STATE,gen (state)
spmap  using  "india_st_shp.dta",  id(state)  ocolor(black)  osize(vthin)

But this is giving me errors

command _fr_area_parse_and_log is unrecognized
r(199);

I'm also getting warning

system limit exceeded - see manual

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me out here. Thanks

[Scott Merryman]

One problem, I believe, is that you are not using the ID variable created by -spshape2dta-.

Here is an example (using Ben Jann's -palettes package to generate the colors , https://github.com/benjann/palettes/)

clear
copy https://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/diva/adm/IND_adm.zip ind_adm.zip ,replace
unzipfile ind_adm.zip, replace
spshape2dta  IND_adm1, replace
colorpalette viridis, n(9) nograph
local colors `r(p)'
use IND_adm1
spmap _ID using IND_adm1_shp, id(_ID) /// 
  fcolor("`colors'") osize(0.04 ..) cln(9) legend(off)

[Titir Bhattacharya]

One problem, I believe, is that you are not using the ID variable created by -spshape2dta-.

Here is an example (using Ben Jann's -palettes package to generate the colors , https://github.com/benjann/palettes/)

clear
copy https://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/diva/adm/IND_adm.zip ind_adm.zip ,replace
unzipfile ind_adm.zip, replace
spshape2dta IND_adm1, replace
colorpalette viridis, n(9) nograph
local colors `r(p)'
use IND_adm1
spmap _ID using IND_adm1_shp, id(_ID) ///
fcolor("`colors'") osize(0.04 ..) cln(9) legend(off)

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Thanks a lot Scott! You were right. I kept thinking state is the relevant id variable. I ran it with the ID generated by spshape2 and it worked perfectly.

Also, thanks for the pallettes package. It would be extremely useful.