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Re: st: Re: Problem with variable names using Insheet
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Re: Problem with variable names using Insheet
Date
Tue, 14 May 2013 09:51:47 +0100
Not so curious if you think about the history. When variable names
could not be very long (originally an 8 character limit) it no doubt
seemed more obvious that groups of variables could be managed by
having the same prefix. Managing suffixes too would have been a
stretch, although not illogical.
-renpfix- was added as an official command some years before -rensfix-
(STB) was published as a user-written command. As you made clear
earlier in the thread, both are superseded for Stata 12 users by the
new -rename-.
Nick
[email protected]
On 14 May 2013 02:34, Joseph Coveney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nick Cox wrote:
>
> . . . For the record, -renpfix- is, and always was, an official command.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks for setting me straight on that, Nick. I stand corrected.
>
> It's curious that StataCorp provided only one of a pair of bookends, though.
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