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Re: st: RE: -save- with emptyok


From   Partha Deb <partha.deb@hunter.cuny.edu>
To   statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject   Re: st: RE: -save- with emptyok
Date   Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:29:24 -0500

Thanks Nick. I implemented a solution, much like the one you suggest, that does not require emptyok. But it seems to me that emptyok is an "empty" option if variables/observations need to be specified anyway before -save , emptyok- plays nicely with -append- or -merge-. Perhaps this is something for the good folks at Statacorp to chew on.

cheers,

Partha


Nick Cox wrote:

The issue here is not with -save-, but with -append-.
-append- needs something more than almost nothing to join on to. I think you need to -save- your dataset
with variables (even though there are no observations). Fortunately, a token variable is sufficient (but evidently necessary).
. clear
. gen completeanduttergarbage = . . save empty, emptyok . append using auto
. drop completeanduttergarbage
Admittedly, the error message here does not indicate
the problem.
Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Partha Deb

I'm having trouble getting -save- to work with emptyok in the way I think it should. Here's an example.

. save temp, emptyok
(note: dataset contains 0 observations)
file temp.dta saved

. use temp.dta

. append using auto.dta
no dataset in use
r(3);


Shouldn't I be able to append? What am I doing wrong? I'm using Stata 9.2.
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