st: Re: Writing values to a file

["Airey, David C" <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

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So are you saying you can determine the summary statistics you want, but you cannot write them out to a text file? Why would you not save the summary statistics out into a Stata data set or .csv file from a Stata data set? In other words is it really the data management that is throwing you or the writing out of data to text files?

> I would be grateful for some advice on writing a value to a file. I have a dataset where I need select a particular value, the first value exceeding a threshold value,and the process is repeated over 240 groups. I can list the values but I am unable to write the values to a file for subsequent use. My code - and I know it is awful programming - is:
> 
> capture : file close myfile
> file open myfile using "elong.txt", write replace
> 	file write myfile ("repeat,e") _n
> capture : drop marker
> gen marker=0
> forvalues i=1/24{
> replace marker=1 if repeat==`i' & ld > 0.001
> su id1 if marker==0 & repeat==`i'
> list group repeat l ls e if repeat==`i' & id1==r(min)
> 	file write myfile (e) if repeat==`i' & id1==r(min)
> 	file write myfile ","
> 	file write myfile (`i') _n
> }
> file close myfile
> 
> Many thanks.
> Janet




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