st: desmat and Stata 8

["Michael J. Rosenfeld" <mrosenfe@stanford.edu>]

On July 16, the following message was posted to Statalist:

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:37:15 +0200
From: "Grote, Veit Dr." <Veit.Grote@kk-i.med.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: st: desmat and Stata8
Hi all,
"desmat" under Stata8 does not work as under Stata7. The nice feature of 
displaying labels of categorical variables disappeared somehow. Maybe 
someone has a clue how to fix it?!
Thanks
Veit Grote

As far as I can tell, Mr. Grote's question has not previously been 
answered.  I initially ran into the same problem with desmat and Stata 
8.  The problem was that I was using an out-of-date version of -desmat-.

-net search desmat- does *not* display the most recent version.

-ssc describe desmat- does display the most recent version of desmat.

version 3.1 and after of -desmat- appear to work fine with Stata 8.  I run 
Stata 8.1 on Windows 2K and Windows 98 machines.

I should add that -desmat- is a very helpful program that is capable of 
building higher order interactions than -xi- or -xi3-, and -desmat- also 
produces much nicer looking output.

-Michael
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