At 21:52 13/12/2004, Martin Rio wrote (in reply to jockmcdock):
have you tried saving your data files with "saveold" rather than "save"
when you use Stata 8? That will make the files created in both sites
compatible. Just a suggestion.
martin
Another possibility might be to use the -descsave- package, downloadable
from SSC, together with -insheet- and -outsheet-. (Use the -ssc- command to
download it.) -descsave- is a Stata program which writes Stata programs,
and is itself Stata 7, but the programs it writes should be compatible with
Stata 8, 7, 6 and 5.
In Stata 7 or 8 (and presumably also in Stata 9 when it comes out), you can
type
descsave, do(myfile.do, replace)
outsheet using mydata.txt, replace
and your data will be written to a file -myfile.txt-, which will be a
tab-delimited generic spreadsheet, and a Stata do-file will be written with
the name -myfile.do-,
capable of reconstructing the variable labels, value labels, types and
formats of the variables. If you then take both of these files to a machine
on which an older version of Stata is installed, then, in the older version
of Stata, you can type
insheet using mydata.txt, clear
run myfile.do
describe
and you will find that your Stata dataset has been reconstructed under the
older version of Stata, complete with types, formats, value labels and
variable labels. It is also possible to reconstruct characteristics (see
help for -descsave-). -descsave- is useful for porting data back from Stata
8 to Stata 6, which cannot be done using the -saveold- command (which only
writes Stata 7 files). I would be surprised if -descsave- did not work
under Stata 9, whenever it comes out.
I hope this helps.
Roger
jockmcdock ([email protected]) wrote:
> Hi
>
> is there any news on when Stata 9 will be released? I currently work
> at two sites. At one site, I have Stata 7 (single user) and at the
> other Stata 8 (university licence). As I often do work on the fly at
> one site for the other, I have to make sure that data files are
> compatible (i.e. version 7). I could update from 7 to 8, but if Stata
> 9 is released, my Stata 8 version will 'automatically' be updated
> version 9 and I will be back in the same situation (which I'd like to
> avoid). So, if there any plans to release STATA 9, I'd be pleased to
> hear of them.
>
> Regards
>
> Joseph
>
>
>
> *
> * For searches and help try:
> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
--
Linux is user friendly. It's just very particular about who it's friends are.
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
--
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
Tel: 020 7848 6648 International +44 20 7848 6648
Fax: 020 7848 6620 International +44 20 7848 6620
or 020 7848 6605 International +44 20 7848 6605
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://phs.kcl.ac.uk/rogernewson/
Opinions expressed are those of the author, not the institution.
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
