>The descriptive analysis extensively uses -fsum- (fsum.ado Full
>SUMmary program v 2.4.0 fw 2may05), contributed by Fred Wolfe,
>as it prints variable labels instead of variable names.
>
>I would like to preserve the comments in the log, since they identify
>analyses, but could live without that feature. Far easier to add a few
>table headers to table groups than to edit out hundreds of lines of
>command code.
What you want is to clean up log files or produce tables. I have programs
for both, but it usually comes out to be the same thing.
I have a program based on -outreg2- that can produce tables of
summary statistics. It will handle labels, titles, notes, blah, blah.
It is byable, but only column-wise. The problem is that it would
have to be upgraded to the newer version of -outreg2- that is
more flexible. Like -outreg2-, this method can produce one huge
table or many small table files. You might not like many small
tables.
The other program is designed to chew up log files in text format.
It is capable of digesting numbers and dumping them into tab-delimited
format (xml, dta). A log file is much easier to clean after being imported
as a data file, because you would say something like: drop if v0=="/*".
The problem is that tab-limited files may not be what you want, which in
case you would also import un-tabbed file, and export that column after
you have finished dropping what you didn't want using the information
from tab-limited columns.
Roy
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