Thanks to the greatly appreciated services of Kit Baum, there is now a new
version of the -descsave- package available for download on SSC. The
-descsave- package is described as below on my website, and can be
downloaded by typing
ssc install descsave
in Stata.
The new version fixes a feature of the -dofile()- option. The generated
output do-file no longer repeats the -label define- statements for value
labels belonging to multiple variables in the data set (as it did before).
This feature, now fixed, did not cause any actual errors, but did sometimes
cause the output do-file to be long and repetitive, if a large number of
variables used the same value label codes.
Best wishes
Roger
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package descsave from http://www.kcl-phs.org.uk/rogernewson/stata7
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TITLE
descsave: Extension of describe creating output files
DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
descsave is an extended version of describe, which creates up to 2
output files.
One is a Stata data set with 1 observation per variable and data on
variable
attributes (name, type, format, variable label, value label, and
selected
characteristics). The other is a Stata do-file which reconstructs these
attributes when run, assuming that the variable exists and is of the
correct
mode (numeric or string). descsave can be used to reconstruct
variables that
have been output to a generic spreadsheet using outsheet and then
input using
insheet, or variables that have been extracted (using factext) from
the label
variable of an output data set created by parmby or parmest. (The
parmest and
factext packages are downloadable from this website or from SSC.)
Author: Roger Newson
Date: 22 April 2004
Stata version: 7
INSTALLATION FILES (click here to install)
descsave.ado
descsave.hlp
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Roger Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Department of Public Health Sciences
King's College London
5th Floor, Capital House
42 Weston Street
London SE1 3QD
United Kingdom
Tel: 020 7848 6648 International +44 20 7848 6648
Fax: 020 7848 6620 International +44 20 7848 6620
or 020 7848 6605 International +44 20 7848 6605
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.kcl-phs.org.uk/rogernewson
Opinions expressed are those of the author, not the institution.
