The disparagement was all mine.... (insert funny face or not
according to taste).
But my answer's almost the same, and easy to make, and not
the solution that you want at this point. This is programmable,
but my guess you'll need a user-programmer to do it. It
doesn't appeal to me, as indicated.
Nick
[email protected]
Michael McCulloch
> Thank you very much Nick. I didn't mean to disparage Stata or
> integrators
> with my question.
> I'm sorry, but at this point in my own progress on the Stata learning
> curve, I haven't yet learned programming and am working with
> do files using
> basic commands and their options.
>
> The results I would like to achieve is a table separated not
> by every N
> lines, but rather by specific values of a variable, such as
> in this case,
> month/year:
>
> .list ini dxage sex race datetx, noobs sepby(datetx)
> ------------------------------------------------
> AD 63 male white November, 1993
> CV 69 male white November, 1993
> JC 39 male white November, 1993
> LF 46 male white November, 1993
> MF 55 male white November, 1993
> NL 63 male white November, 1993
> VJ 68 male asian November, 1993
> ------------------------------------------------
> HM 59 male white December, 1993
> IT 47 male white December, 1993
> MO 76 male white December, 1993
> WC 74 male white December, 1993
> ------------------------------------------------
> AW 61 male white January, 1994
> +------------------------------------------------+
>
>
>
>
> At 10:09 AM 10/24/2006, you wrote:
> >This would be most un-Stataish and it would be in my view
> >be bad style for StataCorp to allow this with -outsheet-
> >or -outfile-, regardless of whether this is a format that
> >is acceptable or congenial downstream. But you could program
> >it yourself fairly easily. The best way that occurs to
> >me is to use -outsheet- or -outfile- to produce a file,
> >and then just read in that file once more and spit it
> >out again with extra intercalated lines.
> >
> >... if !mod(count, s)
> >
> >picks up every s th line. That is, the task doesn't
> >or shouldn't require a hit on -outsheet- or -outfile-
> >code but could just be treated as a twist on copying a file.
> >
> >However, if you want tabs or commas in corresponding places,
> >that would need to be part of the twist.
> >
> >Nick
> >[email protected]
> >
> >Michael McCulloch
> >
> > > -list- has a nifty option, -sepby()-, that allows me to list
> > > data separated
> > > with lines between a variable, in this case a date:
> > >
> > > .list ini dxage sex race datetx, noobs sepby(datetx)
> > > VJ 68 male asian November, 1993
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > HM 59 male white December, 1993
> > > IT 47 male white December, 1993
> > > MO 76 male white December, 1993
> > > WC 74 male white December, 1993
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > AW 61 male white January, 1994
> > > +------------------------------------------------+
> > >
> > > From reading the help files, I don't see that there is a way
> > > to do this
> > > using outsheet or outfile. Is it possible to output such a
> > > table to a file
> > > that can be read by Microsoft Excel or Word?
> >
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>
>
> Best wishes,
> Michael
>
>
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