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st: Figuring out if variables that were read in are strings or not
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Debs Majumdar <[email protected]>
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st: Figuring out if variables that were read in are strings or not
Date
Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:35:54 -0800 (PST)
Hi All,
Is there a way to find out if any of the variables are read in as string?
I am using the --insheet-- command to read in a text file with around 20K variables which might contain "NA" in which case they would be read in as string.
Thanks,
Debs
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