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Re: st: Re: Appending several files


From   "Frederick J. Boehmke" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Re: Appending several files
Date   Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:21:37 -0400 (EDT)

Or you could just use the emptyok option with save:

save filename, emptyok

which will save the file even without any observations.
Then append away.

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Jens Lauritsen wrote:

Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:25:06 +0200
From: Jens Lauritsen <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Re: Appending several files

A simple technique can be useful to "trick" Stata to behave like a dataset exists:
* create an empty dataset with one observation and one variable:
set obs 1
gen articifialvar = 1

* now you can do anything where Stata expects an open data set to be present, e.g. from
* the current discussion:
qui fs *
foreach f in `r(files)' {
append using `f'
}

* following appending all the files the first imaginary observation and variable can be dropped:
drop artificialvar
drop in 1

regards
Jens Lauritsen
Odense, Denmark

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