Re: st: -save- a varlist

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

Nice idea, but the legalese says no copy stored locally, which seems to 
leave little wiggle room.

On 10/30/2012 10:57 AM, Maarten Buis wrote:
> 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
>
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