Thanks to Kit Baum, a new version of the -dsconcat- package is now available for download from SSC, In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old version of -dsconcat-.
The -dsconcat- package is described as below on my website. The new version has been updated to Stata Version 10 (on the eve of the official release of Stata Version 11). It also has an option -append- allowing the user to append the input file datasets to the existing dataset in memory, and a -fast- option for programmers.
I am not sure that there will be any need for a Stata 11 version of -dsconcat-, because the new Stata 11 -append- command seems to have a lot of the power of -dsconcat-. However, some of us will still be using Stata 10 for a while.
Best wishes
Roger
Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
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National Heart and Lung Institute
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package dsconcat from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10
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TITLE
dsconcat: Concatenate a list of Stata data files into the memory
DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
dsconcat is a multiple-file version of use or append. It takes, as input, a list
of filenames, assumed to belong to Stata data files, and creates a new dataset in
memory, containing a concatenation of the input data files, which may either
replace any existing dataset in memory or be appended to any existing dataset in
memory. The new dataset contains all variables in all the input datasets (or a
subset of variables specified by the subset() option), and all observations in
all the input datasets (or a subset of observations specified by the subset()
option), ordered primarily by source dataset and secondarily by order of
observations within each source dataset. For any one variable in the output
dataset in memory, values of that variable are set to missing in any observation
from an input dataset not containing that variable. Optionally, dsconcat creates
new variables specifying, for each observation, its input dataset of origin,
and/or the sequential order of the observation in its input dataset of origin.
Author: Roger Newson
Distribution-Date: 24july2009
Stata-Version: 10
INSTALLATION FILES (click here to install)
dsconcat.ado
dsconcat.sthlp
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