Re: st: RE: how to save output from TABLE or TABSTAT as a stata .dta data file

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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Martin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <fengsz@yahoo.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: st: RE: how to save output from TABLE or TABSTAT as a stata 
.dta data file


> Thank you Both, Martin and Albert. But I was trying to avoid using 
> collapse as it creates trouble when the some of the data generated is 
> empty. Is there anyway to save the output from table or tabstat, or it's 
> simply not possible?
>
> Shuaizhang
>
> --- On Wed, 4/8/09, Lee, Albert <Albert.Lee@hud.gov> wrote:
>
> > From: Lee, Albert <Albert.Lee@hud.gov>
> > Subject: st: RE: how to save output from TABLE or TABSTAT as a stata .dta 
> > data file
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 2:58 PM
> > This may not be elegant, but try:
> >
> > preserve
> >
> > collapse (sum) b, by(a)
> >
> > save filename, replace
> >
> > restore
> >
> > I hope it helps.
> >
> > Albert.
> >
> > Albert J. Lee, Ph.D
> > Economist
> > Summit Consulting LLC
> > albert.lee@hud.gov
> > (202) 402 7562
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu]
> > On Behalf Of Shuaizhang
> > Feng
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 2:51 PM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: st: how to save output from TABLE or TABSTAT as a
> > stata .dta
> > data file
> >
> > Dear all:
> >
> > I am wondering if anyone knows how to save table output
> > from TABLE or
> > TABSTAT to a stata data file.
> >
> > For example, I have used
> >
> > . table a, c(sum b)
> >
> > to generate a list of summary statistics:
> >
> >
> > a sum(b)
> >
> > 1 19372
> > 2 102820
> > 3 21403
> > 4 19001
> > 5 82549
> > 6 15664
> > 7 83616
> > 8 50149
> >
> >
> > How do I save this and maybe change the name of the two
> > variables for
> > later use.
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > Shuaizhang
> >
> >
> >
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