Paulo Guimaraes <[email protected]> wrote:
I would like to know if it is possible to read data directly from an ftp
site.
My interest in this is because I need to access some flat files at the
BLS web site.
Right now what I do is to open the file in my web browser and then save
it and insheet it into Stata.
For example, to read the employment time series for the state of Alabama
I need to open the file in my web browser
with the command:
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.1.Alabama
and then save it and read it into Stata.
Is it possible to read the data directly from within Stata?
I don't think you need to resort to mapping. The user manual [U] 28.2
suggests the Stata -copy- command for sharing other files than Stata
datasets (for which -use- is a direct solution). Although the URL
examples are for http, and I have not tried ftp, ftp is another type
of URL so it should work.
Anders
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