Re: st: -save- a varlist

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jeph Herrin wrote:
>  * per Austin's question, I can derive variables and save those
>     locally; I have many types of nested units, so generally I am
>     creating summary values for these different units (eg, patients,
>     physicians, hospitals) and want to save them out in separate files
>     for each type of unit. and there are some original variables (that I
>     didn't create) which I can also save locally because there is no
>     identifying data.

If I understand you correctly, you have sensitive data where
individuals can be identified, and for legal/contractual/ethical
reasons you cannot store that data locally on your computer. At the
same time having such a local copy would speed up some of your
computations.

Maybe using -tempfile- would provide a reasonable compromise. That
would allow you to store the datafile locally, but only for as long as
your .do file runs.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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