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RE: st: Returning stata users wish list
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: Returning stata users wish list
Date
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:35:27 +0000
I think I see what you want. Two comments spring to mind:
1. You could automate this by writing your own wrappers. Some things would need to be saved in different form as e.g. characteristics, unless and until Stata changes its mind about what goes in a dataset.
2. The main idea at present is that -save- or -save, replace- is a moderately big deal, especially for big datasets. Thus you can do lots of little changes to your data but if you want to save them immediately to the .dta then indeed you must -save- them immediately.
That's not a request I've often heard, but, as has often been written, that doesn't stop StataCorp implementing it.
Nick
[email protected]
Steinar Fossedal
I meant a .dta file.
-Steinar
On 18 March 2011 12:25, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> But what is "file" here? Do you mean your current dataset, a corresponding .dta file, some other file, ...?
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Steinar Fossedal
>
> As to your question on the need for <valuelist> to write rows directly
> to file, the purpose was to write values or macros directly to file,
> not values from the current dataset. E.g. after doing a forward
> selection, the results of each model could easily be written to file
> this way.
>
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