Re: st: How to identify observations in Using file for furtheranalysis with "nearmrg" command

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

..
As the author of nearmrg -- I'm pretty sure that you can't do a one-to-one 
merge.  It was designed to have the using file as a lookup table in a 
many-to-one merge.

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "hmjc66" <hmjc66@gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: st: How to identify observations in Using file for further 
analysis with "nearmrg" command



> Thanks for your suggestion, Rajesh.
>
> I have a more serious issue though. I noticed that -nearmrg- can pick
> the closest observation from the Using file multiple times. I require
> that it be picked only once.
>
> Is there any way that an observation from the using file will be
> picked only once using -nearmrg-? (i.e. after picking an observation,
> go to the next closest observation)
>
> Hugh
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