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| From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: -save- a varlist |
| Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:57:08 +0100 |
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jeph Herrin wrote: > * 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. If I understand you correctly, you have sensitive data where individuals can be identified, and for legal/contractual/ethical reasons you cannot store that data locally on your computer. At the same time having such a local copy would speed up some of your computations. Maybe using -tempfile- would provide a reasonable compromise. That would allow you to store the datafile locally, but only for as long as your .do file runs. Hope this helps, Maarten --------------------------------- Maarten L. Buis WZB Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl --------------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/