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RE: st: r(610)
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: r(610)
Date
Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:51:16 +0000
Very good point.
Nick
[email protected]
Schaffer, Mark E
The most important reason imho isn't in Nick's list: precision in
-outsheet- is determined by display format (!), and if you don't realise
this, the consequences are nasty. I was bitten by this recently:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-01/msg00310.html
Nick Cox
> Using -saveold- is indeed generally preferable to exporting the data
> as a text file for precisely the reasons you identified, the likely
> loss of e.g. variable labels, display formats, characteristics
> (including notes).
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:56 PM, POPE, REBECCA <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I saw Nick's post mentioning both solutions, as well as
> Aggie's follow-up question about insheeting. However, I
> didn't see a post noting the virtues of one approach over the
> other, which seemed relevant. If Nick already posted that, it
> didn't arrive on my end & I apologize to the list for being
> duplicative. I'll try to catch it in the archives later.
> >
> > If you were referring only to Nick's post about potential
> solutions and nothing was posted about why Aggie might want
> to ask her friend to use -saveold- instead of the
> -outsheet/insheet-, I would truly appreciate feedback on my
> view of _why_ it would be preferable for Aggie to ask her
> friend to use -saveold-. I ask this as much for my
> edification as a Stata user (since I frequently use
> -saveold-) as for Aggie's information.
> >
> > Here is the text from my original post:
> > "I'm away from my computer right now so if someone else
> could confirm that would be great, but I think that would
> preserve any formatting, labels, notes, etc that Aggie's
> friend had applied to the data. That would save Aggie
> duplicating any pre-analysis prep work."
> >
> > p.s. I read the help guide when I got back to my office and
> it only explicitly mentions labels. The woman I normally send
> the data sets to isn't in yet, so I can't confirm formats and
> notes myself as a benefit of -saveold- over -outsheet/insheet-.
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