st: re: loop over files, storing r(class), create new dta file

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

B.Water wants to loop over a bunch of commands and store something  
from each in a new Stata datafile.
Earlier today I posted a message (with the wrong subject line, sorry)  
suggesting the slideshow "A little bit of Stata programming..." to  
another user. B.Water will find that useful. The slideshow in  
expanded form is Appendix B of my book.

Re the notion of storing something from each trip through the loop,  
B.Water should -help post-. The -post- and -postfile- commands will  
allow him to store any number of items (string and numeric) as a new  
observation in a separate Stata dataset. My earlier posting

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/ 
statalist.0709/Date/article-17.html

illustrates that trick (as well as the use of -forvalues-; B.Water  
probably needs -foreach-).

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
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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