RE: st: insheet and dropping cases

["Radwin, David" <dradwin@rti.org>]

One other possibility is to use -inputst-, a Stata program that calls Stat/Transfer (part of -stcmd- by Roger Newson and available at SSC).

This workaround is probably less computationally efficient than the suggestions from others, but since you already know that Stat/Transfer works, this approach might be faster and easier than trying to figure out the problem with your text files and -insheet- or -import delimited-.

David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Phil Schumm
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 6:38 AM
> To: Statalist Statalist
> Subject: Re: st: insheet and dropping cases
> 
> On Feb 20, 2014, at 8:28 AM, Ben Hoen <bhoen@lbl.gov> wrote:
> > Hexdump I had never used.  This is what it returned:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Do you see anything suspicious here?  (I replaced all the commas with
> "_", using filefilter - another great suggestion -  wondering if that was
> causing any issues and insheet still returned 184 observations.)
> 
> 
> I don't see anything obvious -- you'll need to look at the file directly.
> Is Stata reading the first 184 observations, or are the 184 observations
> from different places in the file?  Check that first, and if you are
> getting the first 184 observations, then look at lines 184-6 (depending on
> whether the file has a header line).  Something has to be going on there.
> 
> 
> -- Phil

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