st: New version of -sdecode- on SSC

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

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

The -sdecode- package is described as below on my website. In the new 
version, the -msdecode- module now allows string variables (already 
decoded) in the -varlist-. This can save a bit of typing if we are 
combining a mixture of numeric and string variables in 1 column, as in a 
column of a table combining estimates, confidence limits and P-value stars.

Best wishes

Roger

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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
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TITLE
      sdecode: Decode a numeric variable to string, formatting 
unlabelled values

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      sdecode ("super decode") creates an output string variable with
      values from the input numeric variable varname, using labels if
      present and formats otherwise.  The output string variable may either
      replace the input numeric variable or be generated as a new variable
      named newvar.  Unlike decode, sdecode creates an output string
      variable containing the values of the input variable as output by the
      tabulate command and other Stata output, instead of decoding all
      unlabelled input values to missing.  sdecode is especially useful if
      a numeric variable has value labels for some values but not for
      others.  msdecode is a multivariate version of sdecode, which inputs
      a list of numeric or string variables and (optionally) a list of
      delimiters, and creates a single string variable, containing the
      concatenated values of all the input variables, decoded if necessary
      and separated by the delimiters if provided.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 19march2013
      Stata-Version: 11.0

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      sdecode.ado
      sdecode.sthlp
      msdecode.ado
      msdecode.sthlp
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