st: reading dataypse in insheet

["R. Prabhakar" <prabha@strandgenomics.com>]

hi,

i was wondering what is the procedure that stata using in descding
datatypes in the insheet command. does it do it based on the datatype of
the first row of data? if so, then what does it do when the data in teh
first row is missing?

thanks

prabhakar
 


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