Right. This wasn't meant as an alternative to -ds- but as an answer to
the initial question.
Uli
Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 17:55 +0100 schrieb Nick Cox:
> But that's minimal -ds-. Supporting all the options is the tricky thing
> -- and conversely the extra strength given by the options is why people
> should want to use -ds- in the first place.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Ulrich Kohler
>
> -unab- does the trick as well and is documented:
>
> . unab a: _all
> . local b make rep78
> . local c:list a - b
> . disp "`c'"
>
>
> Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 09:39 -0500 schrieb Eric A. Booth:
> > Thanks for the clarification, Nick. I made the erroneous assumption
> > that an increase in the number after -ds- (e.g., ds2, ds3, ds5...)
> > meant newer versions of the program.
> >
> > Since -ds- is now an undocumented/unofficial command, I am curious
>
> > whether there are other commands that have its functionality. In the
>
> > "previously documented" link in the -ds- help file it says:
> >
> > " Previously documented commands are commands of Stata from a previous
>
> > release that are no longer documented because they have been
> > superseded by more recent, better commands. "
> >
> > I see that you can grab a c(varlist) from commands like -desc- and you
>
> > could probably use extended macro functions to piece together what -
> > ds- does, but is there another command that has -ds- 's functionality
>
> > built in & supersedes -ds- ??
> >
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