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Re: st: how does insheet determine datatypes?
On Jan 5, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
But my understanding is that you may be better off importing as
string and doiny your own conversions.
Indeed, but in this particular case I am working with a large number
of files, and am setting up a process that will be repeated by others
(with potentially different data files). Thus, examining the data
beforehand to determine the correct types is not possible. Given
this, the fact that -insheet- reads the data twice (see Bill's
response at http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-01/
msg00114.html) is very reassuring.
-- Phil
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