st: New version of -descsave- on SSC

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

Thanks as always to Kit Baum, a new version of the -descsave- package is 
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 -descsave-.

The -descsave- package is described as below on my website. The new 
version fixes a bug, which previously caused -descsave- to fail when the 
-keep(varlist)- option contained wildcards. It also labels the char-n- 
variables in the output dataset (or resultsset) with variable labels of 
the form
"Characteristic varname[characteristic_name]"

Best wishes

Roger


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TITLE
      descsave: Extension of describe creating output dataset and do-file

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      descsave is an extended version of describe, and creates a 
do-file and/or
      an output Stata dataset (or resultsset). The output Stata dataset has
      1 observation per variable described, and data on variable attributes
      (name, storage type, display format, variable label, value label, and
      selected characteristics). The Stata do-file reconstructs these 
attributes
      when run, assuming that the variable exists and is of the correct 
mode
      (numeric or string). descsave can be used to reconstruct 
variables that have
      been output to a generic spreadsheet using outsheet and then 
input using
      insheet, or variables that have been extracted (using fvregen or 
factext)
      from the label variable of an output dataset (or resultsset) 
created by
      parmby or parmest. (The parmest, fvregen and factext packages are 
downloadable
      from this website or from SSC.)

      Author: Roger Newson
      Date: 10 February 2011
      Stata version: 10

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      descsave.ado
      descsave.sthlp
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