st: New version of -xrewide- on SSC

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

Thanks as always to Kit Baum, a new version of the -xrewide- package is 
now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to 
do this, or -adoupgate- if you already have an old version of -xrewide-.

The -xrewide- package is described as below on my website. The new 
version adds a new module -xrelong-, which is an extended version of 
-reshape long-. -xrelong- has the additional option -jlabel(name)-, 
allowing the user to assign an existing value label to the generated 
-j()- variable. This can be useful, if the existing value label was 
generated using the -varlabdef- package, which you can also download 
from SSC, and the user intends to give the generated -j()- variable a 
value label containing the variable labels (or variable characteristics) 
of the input variables to be reshaped.

Best wishes

Roger

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package xrewide from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10
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TITLE
      xrewide: Extended versions of reshape wide and reshape long

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      The xrewide package contains 2 commands, xrewide and xrelong.
      The xrewide commmand is an extended version of reshape wide.  It
      saves results in variable characteristics, in addition to the
      dataset characteristics saved by reshape.  This is done using
      additional options for assigning the values and/or value labels
      of the j-variable to characteristics of the corresponding
      generated output variables.  These characteristics can be useful
      for defining column headings if the reshaped output dataset is
      output to a table using the listtab package, which can be
      downloaded from SSC.  The xrelong commmand is an extended version
      of reshape long, with the option of assigning an existing value
      label to the generated variable specified by the j() option.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 07november2012
      Stata-Version: 10

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      xrelong.ado
      xrewide.ado
      xrelong.sthlp
      xrewide.sthlp
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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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