" Unfortunately it is very difficult to let Stata automatically decide
what is a main activity" .. That is exactly what Stata is not supposed
to do.... "automatically"
For each task (or may be a group of tasks) there should be a different
"do" file with extended comments for purpose of the do file, date etc.
Krishanu
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Kaulisch, Marc
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I know that is why I would like to make a do-file out of our changes.
>
> Unfortunately it is very difficult to let Stata automatically decide what is a main activity if there are several at a time...
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> Marc
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Martin Weiss
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. November 2009 11:54
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: st: AW: RE: Documentation manual changes
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> Better still: _always_ change data with a do-file, never on the fly. This way, the changes are transparent and reproducible even after a long time has elapsed...
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> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Nick Cox
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. November 2009 11:46
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: st: RE: Documentation manual changes
>
> I don't think you can do that via the Data Editor. If you want that echoed in the log, you need to type it, or write and then run a program that generates that code.
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> Nick
> [email protected]
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> Kaulisch, Marc
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> A different question of mine is if there is a different way to document changes made manual by the data editor as the standard behaviour (in my version 10 of Stata).
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> When I change something in the data I get the output:
> . replace BN8_1 = 24 in 5
> . replace epp = 1 in 5
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> These changes are made for a certain case. So if the sorting of cases changes (e.g. more cases with ids lower than existing ids) I cannot reproduce the changes for a certain case.
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> Instead I would love to get the changes documented (directly by Stata)
> like:
> . replace BN8_1 = 24 if id == 1 & episode == 5 . replace epp = 1 if id == 1 & episode == 5
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Read it: http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html
Specially Question 3.
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