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Re: st: Wishlist for Stata 13
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Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Wishlist for Stata 13
Date
Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:17:49 -0500
a big (to me) caveat to the -defv- solution (and also to Maarten Buis'
solution from today): it does not work with -egen- and it does not work
with -by-
I support request #1
Rich
On 1/30/13 4:04 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> #1 was implemented as a user-written -defv- in 1997:
>
> STB-51 dm50.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Update to defv
> (help defv if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. R. Gleason
> 9/99 p.2; STB Reprints Vol 9, pp.14--15
> updated to Stata 6 and improved
>
> STB-40 dm50 . . . . . . . Defining variables and recording their definitions
> (help defv if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. R. Gleason
> 11/97 pp.9--10; STB Reprints Vol 7, pp.48--49
> command to define a variable and document the operation it performs
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Chamara Anuranga <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 1. I prefer when generate or replace variable on the dataset the
>> command attach as a different type of note to the dataset. This option
>> should be set off and on in order to reduce the file size.
>>
>> 2. if there is a command to open folder and file using Stata (same as
>> window explore) will be useful to browse documents easily. I have done
>> the program called expl (ssc install expl) for this purpose but it may
>> not work on server.
>>
>> 3. Direct exporting Stata table command result to excel also useful.
>>
>> 4. Specify the command line which gives error in loop commands.
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