st: New version of -chardef- on SSC

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

Thanks once again to Kit Baum, a new version of the -chardef- 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 -chardef-.

The -chardef- package is described as below on my website. The new 
version fixes a bug (caused by a missing -capture:- prefix), which 
caused the -charundef- module occasionally to fail with a confusing 
error message. I have also fixed the same bug in the Stata Version 10 
version of -chardef-, which users of Stata Version 10 can download by 
typing, in Stata,

net from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10

and selecting and installing -chardef-.

Best wishes

Roger

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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
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National Heart and Lung Institute
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TITLE
      chardef: Assign values to a characteristic of a list of variables

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      chardef is a mass-production version of the char define
      command.  It assigns a list of values to a named
      characteristic of a list of variables specified by a varlist.
      If the varlist is not supplied, then chardef assigns the
      values to the named characteristic for all variables in the
      dataset currently in the memory.  If the named characteristic
      is not supplied, then the values are assigned to the
      characteristic varname, used by the list command.  If the list
      of values is shorter than the varlist, then the list of values
      is extended on the right with copies of the last value.
      Optionally, a prefix and/or a suffix may be added to the
      values.  The charundef module resets a list of characteristics
      to empty strings for a list of variables.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 21june2011
      Stata-Version: 11

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      chardef.ado
      charundef.ado
      chardef.sthlp
      charundef.sthlp
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