st: New package -keyby- on SSC

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

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new package -keyby- (described as below on my
website) is now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc-
command to do this.

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 
Web page: www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/
Departmental Web page:
http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli/respiration/pop
genetics/reph/

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


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package keyby from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata9
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TITLE
      keyby: Key the dataset by a variable list

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      keyby sorts the dataset currently in memory by the variables in a
      varlist, checking that the variables in the varlist uniquely
      identify the observations.  This makes the variables in the
varlist
      a primary key for the dataset in memory.  If the user does not
      specify otherwise, then keyby also reorders the variables in the
      varlist to the start of the variable order in the dataset, and
      checks that all values of these variables are nonmissing.  keyby
      can be useful if the user combines multiple datasets using merge,
      which may cause a dataset in memory to become unsorted.
      
      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 24august2007
      Stata-Version: 9

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