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From | Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: -save- a varlist |
Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:06:41 -0400 |
On 10/30/2012 10:57 AM, Maarten Buis wrote:
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 --------------------------------- Maarten L. Buis WZB Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl --------------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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