Thanks to Kit Baum, a new package -chardef- is now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this.
The -chardef- command is a mass-production version of -char define-, and is described as below on my website. It can save a few lines of code when resetting the -varname- characteristic, used by the -list- command to produce listings with non-standard variable headings. It can also be useful in producing table header rows for use with the SSC package -listtab-, which you can download from SSC, and which outputs Stata datasets as tables (with customized headings) in TeX, HTML, XML and RTF documents.
Best wishes
Roger
Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
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package chardef from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata11
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TITLE
chardef: Assign values to a characteristic of a list of variables
DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
chardef is a mass-production version of the char define command.
It assigns a list of values to a named characteristic of a list
of variables specified by a varlist. If the varlist is not
supplied, then chardef assigns the values to the named
characteristic for all variables in the dataset currently in the
memory. If the named characteristic is not supplied, then the
values are assigned to the characteristic varname, used by the
list command. If the list of values is shorter than the varlist,
then the list of values is extended on the right with copies of
the last value. Optionally, a prefix and/or a suffix may be
added to the values.
Author: Roger Newson
Distribution-Date: 05november2009
Stata-Version: 11
INSTALLATION FILES (click here to install)
chardef.ado
chardef.sthlp
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