Nick,
Thanks for the thorough if unofficial documentation
if the nature of "official".
Re the below: I opted for 1 because while -ds- will find
variables that have a certain characteristic assigned to
them, I still have to do some checking to determine the
value of the characteristic - that is, I wanted a wrapper
for -ds-, but figured why stop there if I was going to be
invoking a program to do the job anyway. Also, the
programming was fun. Once I figure out all the useful
options to add, I'll share.
cheers,
Jeph
Nick Cox wrote:
Generalities aside, Jeph's specific problem remains.
1. He could write a specific program that just checks for
characteristics. That would be a little more efficient than -ds- can be
because it would spend no time checking for other requests. I can't see
why he needs to do this during Stata 11 unless the programming is
otherwise fun.
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