Nick - I often just type "list in 101/123" or some such other numbers with
limited range - even though I may have 50000 observations. I find this less
bothersome than going to the editor and searching for observations 101/123.
Will list8 also be slow if you give it a limited range even though there are
10000's of observations?
Al Feiveson
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: RE: list in stata8
Frederick Wolfe
> I have to say that I find list8 a problem.
> With a large data set and many variables,
> I have to use -list, noc-. If I do -list,
> noc table clean- or table, I get an unreadable
> list on the screen. When there are a few
> variables, it's quite a nice display.
> What would be nice is to have the old list
> back as well as having the new list. The new
> list breaks a series of older programs that
> used the old list. And typing version 7 doesn't help.
Some things are becoming clearer in this thread.
1. Speed is an issue for some people.
Understood.
2. The style of presentation is an issue to
some people. The very option name -clean-
implies that the default output is, in one
sense, not -clean-.
3. Breaking existing programs is evidently
another issue, if you wrote one dependent
on the old -list-.
4. The fact you can't turn the clock back
under version control is an issue.
If you could, none of 1-3 would bite.
You could put "version 7: list `0'"
in a wrapper and be happy.
But I am still puzzled -- and this is
curiosity, not criticism in disguise.
-list- for me is the ideal when I want
to look at (usually some of) the data,
and there isn't too much of it. I don't want to scan
hundreds of observations or lots of variables.
It is tedious, and I am not very good at it.
Or -- I thought there shouldn't be many
instances of something, and it turns out
there are lots: surprise, but -break- out
of the -list- straight away.
If I want to look at the data, and I need
for some reason to look at lots, -edit-
is much more flexible.
If I want to find something, or whether something
exists, Stata is better and quicker at that than my eyes
are, so I work out the command language
needed.
So, what are these long (or wide) -list-s being used
for? (I repeat: curiosity, not criticism.)
Nick
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