st: unexpected egen fill behavior

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

Kit Baum wrote:
> > The online help for egen fill is a bit lacking. If you want a 
> > repeating pattern, you must present it twice.
> > So what Joe was trying to do can be achieved with
> >
> > egen byte joe=fill(1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2)
> > as Jeph pointed out.
> >
> > The online help really ought to be improved. Even those of us with 
> > two sets of manuals don't always have them at arm's length!
> >
> >
> > Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
> > http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> > An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> > http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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