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RE: st: missing values with outsheet/outfile


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: missing values with outsheet/outfile
Date   Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:23:08 +0100

-outfile- seems to use the Stata code for 
missing anyway. 

I guess the history with -outsheet- was 
that it produced files for reading into 
other software for which Stata conventions 
were irrelevant. 

It sounds as if there should be an option
for -outsheet- to provide this. Recourse
to -tostring- may solve the problem, but 
at best it is a work-around (not that I 
have anything against -tostring-). 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Joseph Coveney
 
> Jean-Benoit Hardouin wrote:
> 
> how can I obtain a point (.) instead a blank in the text file 
> with -outsheet- or -outfile- for a numerical variable ?
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------
> 
> You can use -tostring- just prior to -outsheet- in order to 
> create a string
> variable that contains a point whereever the numeric variable 
> was missing.

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