st: New versions of -addinby- and -rtfutil- on SSC

[Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks to Kit Baum, new versions of the -addinby- and -rtfutil- packages 
are 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 a package.

The -addinby- and -rtfutil- packages are described as below on my 
website. The new version of -addinby- fixes a bug, which appeared 
accidentally during the upgrade to Stata Version 11 from Stata Version 
10, and which caused -addinby- to fail if the user specified a -varlist- 
with wildcards for the -keep()- option. The new version of -rtfutil- 
still has the same Stata Version 11 ado-files, but the on-line help has 
been updated to correct a few SMCL errors, and to add a new .sthlp file 
for each of the 6 modules of the -rtfutil- package (-rtfopen-, 
-rtflink-, -rtfhyper-, -rtfcumlist-, -rtfrstyle- and -rtfclose-), 
pointing to the main on-line help file -rtfutil.sthlp-. The user can 
therefore type

help rtfopen

and Stata will respond with the on-line help for the whole -rtfutil- 
package.

Users of Stata Version 10 can still download the Stata Version 10 
versions of the -addinby- and -rtfutil- packages from my website by typing

net from "http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10/";

and selecting the Stata Version 10 package required.

Best wishes

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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package addinby from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata11
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TITLE
      addinby: Add in data from a disk dataset using a foreign key

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      addinby is a "cleaner" alternative version of merge m:1, designed to
      reduce the lines of code in Stata do-files.  It adds variables
      and/or values to existing observations in the dataset currently in
      memory (the master dataset) from a Stata-format dataset stored in
      the file filename (the using dataset), using a foreign key of
      variables specified by the keyvarlist to identify observations in
      the using dataset.  These foreign key variables must identify
      observations in the using dataset uniquely.  Unlike merge m:1,
      addinby always preserves the observations in the master dataset in
      their original sorting order, and never adds any additional
      observations, and only generates a matching information variable if
      requested to do so.  However, addinby may optionally check that
      there are no unmatched observations in the master dataset, and/or
      check that there are no missing values in the foreign key variables
      in the master dataset.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 12april2010
      Stata-Version: 11

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      addinby.ado
      addinby.sthlp
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package rtfutil from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata11
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TITLE
      rtfutil: Utilities for writing Rich Text Format (RTF) files

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      The rtfutil package is a suite of file handling utilities for
      producing Rich Text Format (RTF) files in Stata, possibly
      containing plots and tables.  These RTF files can then be
      opened by Microsoft Word, and possibly by alternative free
      word processors.  The plots can be included by inserting, as
      linked objects, graphics files that might be produced by the
      graph export command in Stata.  The tables can be included by
      using the listtab command, downloadable from SSC, with the
      handle() option.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 13april2010
      Stata-Version: 11

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      rtfopen.ado
      rtflink.ado
      rtfhyper.ado
      rtfcumlist.ado
      rtfrstyle.ado
      rtfclose.ado
      rtfutil.sthlp
      rtfopen.sthlp
      rtflink.sthlp
      rtfhyper.sthlp
      rtfcumlist.sthlp
      rtfrstyle.sthlp
      rtfclose.sthlp
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