st: New version of -descsave- on SSC

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

Hello All

Thanks to the greatly appreciated services of Kit Baum, there is now a new 
version of the -descsave- package available for download on SSC. The 
-descsave- package is described as below on my website, and can be 
downloaded by typing

ssc install descsave

in Stata.

The new version fixes a feature of the -dofile()- option. The generated 
output do-file no longer repeats the -label define- statements for value 
labels belonging to multiple variables in the data set (as it did before). 
This feature, now fixed, did not cause any actual errors, but did sometimes 
cause the output do-file to be long and repetitive, if a large number of 
variables used the same value label codes.

Best wishes

Roger

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package descsave from http://www.kcl-phs.org.uk/rogernewson/stata7
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TITLE
      descsave: Extension of describe creating output files

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      descsave is an extended version of describe, which creates up to 2 
output files.
      One is a Stata data set with 1 observation per variable and data on 
variable
      attributes (name, type, format, variable label, value label, and 
selected
      characteristics). The other is a Stata do-file which reconstructs these
      attributes when run, assuming that the variable exists and is of the 
correct
      mode (numeric or string). descsave can be used to reconstruct 
variables that
      have been output to a generic spreadsheet using outsheet and then 
input using
      insheet, or variables that have been extracted (using factext) from 
the label
      variable of an output data set created by parmby or parmest. (The 
parmest and
      factext packages are downloadable from this website or from SSC.)

      Author: Roger Newson
      Date: 22 April 2004
      Stata version: 7

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      descsave.ado
      descsave.hlp
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(click here to return to the previous screen)

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Roger Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Department of Public Health Sciences
King's College London
5th Floor, Capital House
42 Weston Street
London SE1 3QD
United Kingdom

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Email: roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk
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