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Re: st: A bug in egen and gen?
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Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
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Re: st: A bug in egen and gen?
Date
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:48:37 -0600
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> The alternatives include
>
> 1. You always have to tell -generate-, etc. what variable type you
> want created. On the whole, I don't think that would be a popular
> change.
>
> 2. You write your own wrappers for -generate-, etc. that insist on
> variable type being specified. That is programmable.
>
> 3. Your attitude is that Stata should always be smart enough to work
> out what you want. Good luck on that one.
4. set type double, [permanent]
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