Re: st: how to make xi dummies inherit labels

[Roger Harbord <Roger.Harbord@bristol.ac.uk>]

If version 1.1.3 is available from sealedenvelope.com there's something 
wrong with the way it's interfacing with -net- :

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. about

Stata/SE 7.0 for Windows 98/95/NT
Born 11 June 2002
Copyright (C) 1985-2002

Total physical memory:      261668 KB
Available physical memory:  140656 KB
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. which reformat
c:\ado\stbplus\reformat.ado
*! version 1.0.2   9mar00 arb
*! Reformats the output from regression commands

. net from http://www.sealedenvelope.com
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http://www.sealedenvelope.com/
Programs from Sealed Envelope Ltd
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These programs are provided by Sealed Envelope Ltd.
For more details on their use visit www.sealedenvelope.com

PACKAGES you could -net describe-:
   reformat          Reformat regression output
   xtab              Tabulate longitudinal data
   xfill             Fill in static variables in longitudinal data
   xcount            Count longitudinal data
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. net install reformat
checking reformat consistency and verifying not already installed...
all files already exist and are up-to-date.

. which reformat
c:\ado\stbplus\reformat.ado
*! version 1.0.2   9mar00 arb
*! Reformats the output from regression commands

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So I still have version 1.0.2!  I originally installed this from SSC I 
think. I don't know how -net- decides that my files are up-to-date.

Also the only source for -reformat- picked up by -net search reformat- 
(which I usually access via the 'Help' menu) is the SSC version at 
http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/r.  I'm too new to Stata and Statalist to 
fully understand the protocol here, but maybe either Tony needs to register 
his site somehow so it's found by -net search-, or send the latest version 
of -reformat- to the SSC??

I'm finding the whole business of making sure you've got the latest version 
of user-written packages is starting to irritate me just at the moment.. So 
apologies if the above was a bit curt.  I do appreciate the work put in by 
Tony Brady on -reformat-, John Hendrickx on -outreg- and all the other 
people who write programs and make them available to the wider Stata 
community.


Roger.
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Roger Harbord     mailto:roger.harbord@bristol.ac.uk
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol


--On 03 October 2002 21:34 +0100 Tony Brady <tony@sealedenvelope.com> wrote:


> Roger Harbord <Roger.Harbord@bristol.ac.uk> asked
>
> "Is there a way to make the dummy variables created by -xi- inherit their
> variable labels from the value labels of the variable in question?"
>
> and went on to report that -reformat- failed to pick up these value
> labels. I wrote -reformat- specifically to do this as I was fed up with
> labelling my variables and values nicely only to be faced with
> incomprehensible terms like "_Iage10yr2_2" in my regression output. I
> suspect the reason that -reformat- is failing on Roger's machine is that
> he is running an early version of -reformat- that was expecting -xi-
> created variables to start with "I", the default in Stata 6. This prefix
> was changed to "_I" in Stata 7. The most recent version of -reformat- is
> 1.1.3, available from www.sealedenvelope.com (e.g. type "net from
> http://www.sealedenvelope.com"; in Stata). To check which version of
> -reformat- you are currently running type "which reformat" in Stata.
>
> Tony Brady
>
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