While upgrading to Stata 8 is a great idea, they could also try
Stat-Transfer (www.stat-transfer.com).
Lee Sieswerda, Epidemiologist
Thunder Bay District Health Unit
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 5:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: About data transformation
>
> Vincent <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I am a STATA 8 SE user. I would like to share my data
> > set (*.dta) with people who use STATA 6.0, however,
> > they told me that they could not open the data file.
> > STATA 6.0 says that it's not a stata data file.
> > I am wondering if there is any solution for this?
>
> In Stata 8, you can type
>
> . saveold filename7
>
> The -saveold- command will save your dataset so that it can be read by
> Stata 7.
> However, Stata 6 will still not be able to read this. But, if you have
> access
> to Stata 7, you could then open the dataset you just created with Stata 7
> and
> type:
>
> . save filename6, old
>
> This would convert the data from Stata 7 format to Stata 6 format. The
> -saveold- command replaced this command in Stata 8. Going through this
> two-step process would convert the data so that Stata 6 could read it.
>
> The only other alternative I can think of would be to use the -outfile- or
>
> -outsheet- command to create an ASCII text file of the data. You could
> then
> use -infile-, -infix-, or -insheet- to read the data into Stata 6.
>
> In doing this, you might run into limit issues, such as length of variable
>
> names (Stata 6 had a limit of 8 characters and Stata 7 and 8 have limits
> of 32
> characters), maximum number of variables, string lengths (Intercooled
> Stata 6
> limited strings to 80 characters and Stata 7 SE and 8 SE limit them to 244
> characters), etc.
>
> In the end, the best solution might be to encourage your friends to
> upgrade to
> Stata 8.
>
> --Shannon Driver
> [email protected]
>
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