st: New version of -factmerg- on SSC

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

Thanks again to Kit Baum, a new version of the -factmerg- 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 of -factmerg-.

The -factmerg- package is described as below on my website. The new 
version has been updated from Stata Version 7 to Stata Version 10. I 
have also added  the new option -xmlsub-, causing the characters &, < 
and > in the output string variables to be substituted with the 
corresponding XML escape sequences, in case the output variable is 
output to a XML document. In addition, I have added the options 
-pvalue()-, -pname()- and -plabel()- to specify prefixes, and the 
options -svalue()- -sname()- and -slabel()- to specify suffixes, for the 
output factor value, factor name and factor variable label output 
variables, respectively. These might be useful if the user is outputting 
these variables to TeX, HTML, RTF or XML documents.

Users of Stata Versions 7, 8 and 9 can still download the old Stata 
Version 7 version of -factmerg- from my website by typing, in Stata,

net from "http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata7/";

and se;ecting and downloading -factmerg-.

Best wishes

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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TITLE
      factmerg: Merge a list of factors to create string variables

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      factmerg inputs a list of factors and outputs up to 3 string 
variables,
      containing, in each observation, the name, variable label and value,
      respectively, of the first factor in the list with a nonmissing 
value in
      that observation. These string variables can be used in creating 
row labels
      for output tables and/or plots, possibly using the sencode 
package. The input
      factors are usually either created in a parmest or parmby output 
data set by
      using the factext package, or are in a data set created by 
concatenating
      multiple xcontract output data sets using dsconcat. The sencode, 
parmest,
      factext, xcontract and dsconcat packages are downloadable from 
SSC or from
      this website.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 25january2011
      Stata-Version: 10

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