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From | "Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: Re: Temporary variables saved by accident |
Date | Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:03:40 +0000 |
You might like to do the saving between a -preserve- and a -restore-, or even to use the SSC package -subsave-, which saves subsets of variables.
I hope this helps. Best wishes Roger Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil Lecturer in Medical Statistics Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College London Royal Brompton Campus Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building 1B Manresa Road London SW3 6LR UNITED KINGDOM Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381 Fax: +44 (0)20 7351 8322 Email: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk Web page: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/ Departmental Web page: http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli/respiration/popgenetics/reph/ Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution. On 09/01/2013 15:52, Adrian Sayers wrote:
Hi Billy, Honestly i would have thought temporary variables would be have more like local macros. Also the help file says they are dropped when the program or do file concludes . So if i save the file, clear the data set, why are they all not dropped, so when i re-open the file they should not be there. After all my do file did conclude. It just seems strange behaviour for temporary variables to be made permanent. bw A * * 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/
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