Re: st: I wish I'd known that -

[Tim Wade <wadetj@gmail.com>]

Looking back, here are a few random things I wish I had made better
use of earlier:

-tempfile- and -tempvar- to avoid cluttering up my datasets and directories
applying _n and _N and other system variables
use and access saved results (e.g., r() results and e() )
-isid-
-recode-
-cond()-
and the syntax with -by- that allows sorts without indexing, e.g.,  by
id (year): generate something=something


Apologies if others have already mentioned these.

Tim



On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ronan Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie> wrote:
> Teaching Stata, I am aware of the many useful commands, functions and tricks
> I wish I had known about earlier, such as
>
> inlist
> egen tag
> egen group
> db
>
> Since I teach basic Stata, I wanted to poll the experience of those who have
> learned Stata recently (since it developed menus - my release 3 diskettes
> are still in the office somewhere!).
>
> What are the things that you wish you had learned earlier?
>
> Your answers will go to enrich the lives of my grad students. Only kidding;
> they will go into my Stata course.
>
>
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