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From   "Newson, Roger B" <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: New version of -addinby- on SSC
Date   Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:29:15 +0100

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new version of the -addinby- package is now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this, or -adoupdate- if you have an existing version of -addinby-.

The -addinby- package is described as below on my website. The new version has been updated to Stata Version 11, so it is now a cleaner version of -merge m:1-, instead of being a cleaner version of -merge-, as in Stata Version 10. The new version also adds a new option -generate()-, allowing the user optionally to generate a match results variable, although this variable is not generated by default. Also, the -using- dataset no longer has to be sorted by its foreign key, although that foreign key must uniquely identify its observations.

Users of Stata Version 10 can still download the Stata 10 version of -addinby- from my website by typing, in Stata,

net describe addinby, from(http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10)

and then installing.

The -addinby- package is used, together with the SSC package -keyby-, to enforce the relational database model, in which a dataset is viewed as a mathematical function, whose domain is the set of available combinations of its key variable values, and whose range is the set of all possible combinations of its non-key variable values. Life is a lot simpler if you can always assume that about a dataset.

Best wishes

Roger


Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
Royal Brompton Campus
Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building
1B Manresa Road
London SW3 6LR
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381
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Email: [email protected] 
Web page: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/
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Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.

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package addinby from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata11
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TITLE
      addinby: Add in data from a disk dataset using a foreign key

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      addinby is a "cleaner" alternative version of merge m:1, designed to
      reduce the lines of code in Stata do-files.  It adds variables
      and/or values to existing observations in the dataset currently in
      memory (the master dataset) from a Stata-format dataset stored in
      the file filename (the using dataset), using a foreign key of
      variables specified by the keyvarlist to identify observations in
      the using dataset.  These foreign key variables must identify
      observations in the using dataset uniquely.  Unlike merge m:1,
      addinby always preserves the observations in the master dataset in
      their original sorting order, and never adds any additional
      observations, and only generates a matching information variable if
      requested to do so.  However, addinby may optionally check that
      there are no unmatched observations in the master dataset, and/or
      check that there are no missing values in the foreign key variables
      in the master dataset.
      
      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 17september2009
      Stata-Version: 11

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      addinby.ado
      addinby.sthlp
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