Re: st: Problem opening do.file: help is appreciated

[Ronan Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

On 15 Jul 2008, at 23:54, Carlos Rodriguez wrote:

> I was working with a do.file.  I ran all the regressions and saved the
> do.file.  Now I try to open the do.file again and get an error message
> saying "cannot open file b/c it's larger than 32000 bytes".  I've
> tried many times in vain.
As a general tip, it's often possible to tidy a do-file by using - 
foreach- to run a whole bunch of similar analyses. You can do  
something like this:


sysuse auto

foreach var of varlist price mpg headroom - length {
	di "========================================"
	di "Univariate logistic regression for `var'"
	di "========================================"
	logistic foreign `var'
	}


This adds a little header above each piece of output, making it easier  
to read.

I find that when I finish an analysis I frequently rewrite the do-file  
like this and produce a definitive set of results for reference.

Ronan Conroy
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