Re: st: -save- a varlist

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

This seems contradictory to me. I can e.g. -outsheet- a variable as
value labels and -label save- too. So, you can read the data back in
and then -encode- them. I would rather not do that, sure, but it's not
especially difficult and it could certainly be automated via
program(s).

Nick

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the various tips, this last one (-label save-, which I have used
> in other contexts, but forgot about) being the most useful.
>
> Regarding the other comments:
>
>  * -outsheet- and -outfile- are obvious alternatives that don't really
>     solve the problem, in that labels are still lost
>  * unless of course I do it twice, once with and without value labels,
>     as suggested, but it's not trivial to recreate value labels that way
>     with the same underlying values
>  * per Austin's question, I can derive variables and save those
>     locally; I have many types of nested units, so generally I am
>     creating summary values for these different units (eg, patients,
>     physicians, hospitals) and want to save them out in separate files
>     for each type of unit. and there are some original variables (that I
>     didn't create) which I can also save locally because there is no
>     identifying data.
>
>
> On 10/30/2012 10:23 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
>>
>> Note also -label save-.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>:
>>> And if you do that twice, the -nolabel- option can be used one of
>>> those times, so you have both values and value labels. But why can't
>>> you save the whole file locally, if you are allowed to save several
>>> variables locally?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As Daniel Feenberg underlined recently, you can -outsheet- part of the
>>>> data. In the same vein, -outfile- is another alternative.
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a very large dataset (20gb) that I must access remotely, so that
>>>>> -use- and -save- each take about 30minutes. When I have this file open,
>>>>> I would like to create some secondary files that contain only 1-3
>>>>> variable.
>>>>>
>>>>> If the file were smaller, I would typically use -preserve-, -keep-,
>>>>> -save-, -restore- to do this. However, this takes a couple of hours. So
>>>>> I am using
>>>>>
>>>>> . export excel var1 var2 var3 using file.xls, replace
>>>>>
>>>>> Then later using -import excel- to read them back in. This is much
>>>>> faster, but has the obvious drawback that variable labels and other
>>>>> attributes are lost. It is also aesthetically unsatisfying.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone suggest an alternative?
>>>
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