st: New version of -descsave- on SSC

["Newson, Roger B" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new version of the -descsave- package (described
as below on my website) is now available for download from SSC. The new
version fixes a bug, which caused the output dataset (or resultsset)
created by -descsave- to contain an unnecessary extra string variable
-dquote- (containing a double quote in all observations), whenever the
-dofile()- option was specified. I have also updated the manual
references in the online help for -descsave-.

Best wishes

Roger


Roger Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
Royal Brompton campus
Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building
1B Manresa Road
London SW3 6LR
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381
Fax: +44 (0)20 7351 8322
Email: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk 
www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/

Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.


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package descsave from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata9
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TITLE
      descsave: Extension of describe creating output dataset and
do-file

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      descsave is an extended version of describe, and creates a do-file
and/or
      an output Stata dataset (or resultsset). The output Stata dataset
has
      1 observation per variable described, and data on variable
attributes
      (name, storage type, display format, variable label, value label,
and
      selected characteristics). The Stata do-file 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 dataset (or resultsset) created by
parmby or
      parmest. (The parmest and factext packages are downloadable from
this website
      or from SSC.)
      
      Author: Roger Newson
      Date: 12 February 2007
      Stata version: 9

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to
install)
      descsave.ado
      descsave.hlp
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