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Re: st: Importing CVS files after "clear" command?
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Ronan Conroy <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Importing CVS files after "clear" command?
Date
Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:17:29 +0000
On 9 Mar 2011, at 10:09, Sergio Villamayor Tomas wrote:
> Thank you Nick and Ronan,
> The csv file still contained all the data.
> After reading some of the references you sent me, I entered the csv.
> data by copying it from excel and pasting directly in the stata data
> editor and it worked. It had not worked using insheet command.
One warning: pasting is an invisible operation. There is no record of how the data got from Excel into Stata. You are better advised to leave an audit trail by using -insheet- and saving the commands in a do-file. That way you can reconstruct your dataset.
Ronán Conroy
[email protected]
Associate Professor
Division of Population Health Sciences
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Beaux Lane House
Dublin 2
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