Thanks all for your posts. I did infact try what Oscar suggested and
that worked fine.
Ritesh
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Kantor
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:14 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: help merge
Indeed, -keep()- is a feature that is new in Stata 8.
In an earlier Stata version, you would need to do what Oscar Alberto
Budar
Mej�a had suggested. Here's a somewhat modified variant on that:
use master;
keep the variables you want to take, plus match-key variables;
sort on the match-key variables;
save as a tempfile;
use analytic;
merge using the tempfile created above;
I used to do this all the time. Thus I am very please that they added
the
-keep()- feature.
This also reminds us to state what version of Stata you use (if it is
not
the latest) when posing a question.
-- David
At 12:36 PM 9/9/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I think the problem is that the keep option for merge is new in Stata
8, so
>it wouldn't be documented or working for the poster who states they are
>using Stata 7.0.
>
>Michael Blasnik
>[email protected]
>
>[...]
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
[email protected]
410-516-5404
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