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From | Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk> |
To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | st: New version of -sdecode- on SSC |
Date | Tue, 8 Jun 2010 19:46:37 +0100 |
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 -- Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil Lecturer in Medical Statistics Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College London Royal Brompton Campus Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building 1B Manresa Road London SW3 6LR UNITED KINGDOM Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381 Fax: +44 (0)20 7351 8322 Email: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk Web page: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/ Departmental Web page: http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli/respiration/popgenetics/reph/ Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- package sdecode from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata11 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLEsdecode: 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 valuescorresponding 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 stringvariable 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (click here to return to the previous screen) * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/