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Re: st: Why no error with -table- & trailing -if- ?
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Why no error with -table- & trailing -if- ?
Date
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 02:01:37 +0100
The perhaps surprising extended role of the comma is documented at [U] 11.1.7.
(http://www.stata.com/manuals13/u.pdf p.82)
Nick
[email protected]
On 24 October 2013 00:46, Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Steve Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> . sysuse auto, clear
>> . table rep78, c(mean mpg), if turn<40
>
> Because it is out of options already. Visualize it like this:
>
> cmd , options, more command, more options
>
> Comma switches between the command and the options mode. So your
> command is equivalent to:
> table rep78 if turn<40, c(mean mpg)
>
> Best, Sergiy Radyakin
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Steve
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>> On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:35 PM, Sergiy Radyakin wrote:
>>
>> Dear Dirk,
>>
>> see if -savespss- and or saveto9.exe are able to help:
>> http://www.radyakin.org/transfer/savespss/savespss.htm
>> http://www.radyakin.org/transfer/saveto9/cs/index.htm
>>
>> The first one is a Stata 10.0+ command (in Mata) that writes SPSS
>> system files (*.sav) directly. The second one is a standalone utility
>> to "downgrade" the version of the Stata dataset without Stata at all
>> (neither Stata, nor SPSS, nor Stat/Transfer is necessary for it).
>>
>> Best, Sergiy Radyakin
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Dirk Enzmann
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> I cannot come up with hard numbers, but here are some impressions as to the
>>> difficulties:
>>>
>>> I already bought Stata from my private money (for use at my work!) - when I
>>> bought it the first time (several years ago) my institution had no net
>>> license of Stata; even after they decided to invest into a net license, I
>>> regularary bought new versions because my instituion is too slow to invest
>>> in updates (at the moment, the most recent version available is Stata 11!).
>>> I would not starve if I had to buy StatTransfer on top of it, but I am
>>> really hesitating because this I also had to pay subtracting from my salary
>>> because this program does not belong to the software our institution bought
>>> for use of their students or employees.
>>>
>>> Until Stata 12 I could live comfortably without StatTransfer - I wrote an
>>> SPSS script (SPSS2Stata.sbs) to translate SPSS files to Stata and a Stata
>>> .ado (-dta2sav-) to move Stata files to SPSS. But the way to SPSS is blocked
>>> now since Stata 13.
>>>
>>> Luckily I have bought Stata 12 before, thus I can use it for moving files
>>> from Stata 13 to SPSS - others, who are new to Stata since version 13 are
>>> not so lucky.
>>>
>>> I recently convinced colleagues in Finland to use Stata - but now they
>>> recognize that they have to buy StatTransfer on top of it. Of course, this
>>> is my fault, I should have told them before.
>>>
>>> Some days ago there was a thread in the SPSS discussion list showing that
>>> others experience this problem, as well (see:
>>> http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/Stata-to-SPSS-conversion-td5722443.html
>>> ).
>>>
>>> Perhaps more important than money is the fact that even buying StatTranfer
>>> does not help in all situations: It does not preserve labels of user missing
>>> values (Stata's exended missing values) when transferring Stata data to SPSS
>>> data (the other way round is also not without problems). To overcome this
>>> problem, I wrote -dta2sav- (availabel on SSC). Unfortunately, if you don't
>>> have an older version of Stata at your disposal (here, -uses13- can help),
>>> you can't use it to transfer Stata 13 (format 117) files to SPSS.
>>>
>>> Of course, you can blame SPSS for not updating their import routines (even
>>> the maintenance of R's -foreign- package has been frozen for Stata formats
>>> after 12, see http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreign/foreign.pdf on
>>> page 5), but this does not help users who want to use Stata in a context of
>>> a majority (or important) colleagues still using SPSS.
>>>
>>> Dirk
>>>
>>>
>>> Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:17:34 +0100, Nick Cox<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So, in summary, you appear to be saying that you know people who could
>>>> afford Stata 13 but are reluctant to buy because they (a) would be in
>>>> difficulty transferring their datasets to SPSS and (b) cannot afford
>>>> StatTransfer as an extra purchase?
>>>>
>>>> That's interesting. I have got to say that they are missing out on a
>>>> great upgrade.
>>>>
>>>> I just checked and a single user academic license [sic] of
>>>> StatTransfer is USD 179.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As I understand, Sergiy's add-ons could help them a lot.
>>>>
>>>> StataCorp would, I think, be interested in hard evidence that they are
>>>
>>>> losing out on sales because people really need a kind of "save to
>>>> SPSS" command before they can decide to buy. I have no insight into
>>>> how SPSS is managed.
>>>
>>> --
>>> ========================================
>>> Dr. Dirk Enzmann
>>> Institute of Criminal Sciences
>>> Dept. of Criminology
>>> Rothenbaumchaussee 33
>>> D-20148 Hamburg
>>> Germany
>>>
>>> phone: +49-(0)40-42838.7498 (office)
>>> +49-(0)40-42838.4591 (Mrs Billon)
>>> fax: +49-(0)40-42838.2344
>>> email: [email protected]
>>> http://www2.jura.uni-hamburg.de/instkrim/kriminologie/Mitarbeiter/Enzmann/Enzmann.html
>>> ========================================
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