st: New versions of -sencode- and -sdecode- on SSC

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

Thanks once again to KIt Baum, new versions of the -sencode- and 
-sdecode- packages are now available for download from SSC. In Stata, 
use the -ssc- command to do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have old 
versions of these packages.

The -sencode- and -sdecode- packages are described as below on my 
website, and are "super" versions of -encode- and -decode-, respectively.

The new version of -sencode- is still in Stata Version 10, although, if 
run under Stata Version 13, it can encode the very long string values 
(includung -strL- values) allowed by Stata Version 13. It adds a new 
-noextend- option, which functions as the option of the same name for 
-encode-, but which may not be specified with the -manyto1- option of 
-sencode-, or with the -replace- suboption of the -label()- opyion of 
-sencode-.

The new version of -sdecode- has now been updated to Stata Version 13, 
which was necessary to enable the decoding of long string values 
(including -strL- values) allowed by Stata Version 13. However, users of 
Stata Versions 12, 11, 10, 9, 8 and 7 can still install the old Stata 
Versions 11, 10, 9 and 7 versions of -sdecode- from my website by 
typing, in Stata,

net from "http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/";

and selecting the subdirectory for the most recent Stata version of 
-sdecode- compatible with their versions of Stata.

Best wishes

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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package sencode from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10
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TITLE
      sencode: Encode a string variable non-alphanumerically into a 
numeric variable

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      sencode is an extended version of encode. It takes, as input, a 
string
      variable, and generates, as output, a numeric variable, with 
value labels
      corresponding to values of the string variable. The output 
numeric variable
      may replace the input string variable or be generated as a new 
variable.
      sencode orders the numeric values corresponding to string values 
in the
      sequential order of appearance in the input string variable in 
the data set,
      or in another order specified by the user, instead of ordering 
them in
      alphanumeric order of the string value, as encode does. The 
mapping from
      numeric code values to string labels may be one-to-one (coded in 
order of
      first appearance of the string value) or many-to-one (coded in each
      observation by the position of that observation in the data set, 
or in the
      user-specified ordering).

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 24september2013
      Stata-Version: 10

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      sencode.ado
      sencode.sthlp
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package sdecode from http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/s
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TITLE
      'SDECODE': module to decode a numeric variable into a string variable

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 list 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 variables and (optionally) a list of delimiters,     and
      creates a single string variable, containing the concatenated and
          decoded values of all the input variables, separated by the
        delimiters if provided.

      KW: data manipulation
      KW: string conversion
      KW: value labels

      Requires: Stata version 13.0


      Author: Roger Newson, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial 
College London
      Support: email r.newson@imperial.ac.uk

      Distribution-Date: 20130930


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