st: New version of -sdecode- on SSC

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

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new version of the -sdecode- package is now 
available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do 
this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old version.
The -sdecode- package is a "super" version of -decode-, and is described 
as below on my website. The new version fixes a rarely-encountered and 
very confusing bug, which previously caused problems if the encoded 
variable had value labels and the decoded variable took up more memory 
than was available. Under these circumstances, -sdecode- would get its 
decoded values using the display format of the encoded variable. This is 
fortunately fixed in the new version.
Best wishes

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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TITLE
      sdecode: Decode a numeric variable to string, formatting 
unlabelled values
DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      sdecode is an extended version of decode. It takes, as input, a 
numeric
      variable, and generates, as output, a string variable, with values
      corresponding to value labels of the numeric variable for 
labelled values,
      and (optionally) formatted values of the numeric variable for 
unlabelled
      values. The output string values therefore appear as the numeric 
input
      values appear in output from the tabulate command. The output string
      variable may replace the input numeric variable or be generated 
as a new
      variable.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 07june2010
      Stata-Version: 11

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      sdecode.ado
      sdecode.sthlp
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