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st: possible bug in outsheet?
Is outsheet meant to recast a variable?
See output below.
I think outsheet is looking at the number type of the first cell and in this
case decides that this variable is an integer and hence is truncating values.
Personally I think Stata should be picking up the format from the
variable because
this behaviour is a little unsound.
cheers
Ade
. d falc825
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
falc825 float %2.0f Other alcoholic beverages 5 day
1982
. su
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
falc825 | 100 6.458667 27.12486 0 185.6
. outsheet using ade.csv,comma replace
. insheet using ade.csv,clear
(1 var, 100 obs)
. su
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
falc825 | 100 6.47 27.17227 0 186
. d
Contains data
obs: 100
vars: 1
size: 600 (99.9% of memory free)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
falc825 int %8.0g
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorted by:
Note: dataset has changed since last saved
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