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Re: st: Append in combination with insheet (of csv files)


From   Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Append in combination with insheet (of csv files)
Date   Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:41:14 +0000

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Kaspar Dardas
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> is there an efficient way of combining the append and insheet command?
> I have multiple csv files, which I would like to display in one Stata session.
>
> I have already tried
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-08/msg00949.html,
> however, I get an error message which says "dir. not allowed" after
> the fourth row.
> I can't figure out this command doesn't work. I use Stata 11.

See -man extended fcn- for how the code in that line works.

Based on the above I'd hazard a guess that you have removed a space
between 'dir' and '.' as the '.' is indicating that files ending with
".csv" in the current directory (the '.' means current directory).

Neil



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