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Re: st: Stata commands "version" and "saved results"
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Stata commands "version" and "saved results"
Date
Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:06:45 +0000
I don't understand your question. As your code illustrates, you can
access items such as c(version) directly, so you are not dependent on
whether any command produces them as saved results. -creturn li- gives
this and other constants. It sounds as if you need c(stata_version).
This is all documented in the manuals: [P] is the best place to look.
(And naturally, the result need not be integer.)
Nick
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Marco Ercolani
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I need a command that returns an integer for the version of Stata anyone is using.
> I then want to use this integer to decide what save command to implement,
> along the lines of:
>
> if e(V)>=10: saveold dataset.dta
> if e(V)<0: save dataset.dta
>
>
> I know that many commands exists to ask Stata what version is running but the
> manuals do not document if any of these commands produce "saved results":
>
> Examples:
>
> . version
> version 11.1
>
> . display c(version)
> 11.1
>
> . about
> Stata/MP 11.1 for Windows (64-bit x86-64)
> Born 04 Nov 2010
> Copyright (C) 2009 StataCorp LP
>
>
>
> This following simple solution does not work because it still saves the data as version 10:
>
> version 9.2: save dataset.dta
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