st: New package -xdatelist- on SSC

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

Hello All

Thanks to Kit Baum, there is now a new package -xdatelist- available for 
download from SSC (using the -ssc- command in Stata).

The -xdatelist- package is described as below on my website. It supersedes 
the pre-existing package -datelist-, and is essentially the same except for 
the name. This has been changed because, in Stata versions 8.1 and above, 
the command

whelp datelist

calls up the official Stata on-line help for -numlists- containing dates. 
-xdatelist- can be seen as an extension of this capability, although it is 
still written in Stata 7.

I would like to thank Nick Cox for his very helpful advice on how best to 
rename this package.

Best wishes

Roger


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package xdatelist from http://www.kcl-phs.org.uk/rogernewson/stata7
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TITLE
      xdatelist: Create ascending numeric lists of dates

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      xdatelist creates a numeric list of dates bounded by a string-format
      first and last date and spaced by a given number of time units (eg
      weeks, months, quarters or years). It is similar to the numlist
      command, and returns the numeric dates in the result r(numlist).
      Optionally, xdatelist also returns a list of formatted string dates
      in the result r(strlist). The program is useful if the list of dates
      is separated by unequal numbers of days (because months and years
      vary in length). xdatelist is an update of the datelist package
      formerly distributed on SSC. The change of name was necessary because
      Stata versions 8.1 and above use the word datelist to describe a
      numlist including dates.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 06february2005
      Stata-Version: 7

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      xdatelist.ado
      xdatelist.hlp
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Roger Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Department of Public Health Sciences
King's College London
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