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Re: st: centralizing survey data


From   "Austin Nichols" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: centralizing survey data
Date   Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:45:42 -0500

It may be worse than you think--if you don't specify a varlist, it
operates on every variable in the data.  Caveat emptor, and never
-save, replace- (-save- under a new file name--disk space is cheap).

On 3/5/07, Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]> wrote:
your program should have a required -replace- option, so that the user
realizes that the existing data values are overwritten :))

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