st: New vwersion of -sencode- for SSC

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks yet again to Kit Baum, a new version of the -sencode- package is 
now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to 
do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old version of -sencode-.

The -sencode- package is a "super" version of -encode-, and is described 
as below on my website. The new version adds a -mforst- suboption for 
the -gsort()- option. It also has a .sthlp on-line help file to replace 
the old .hlp on-line help file.

Best wishes

Roger

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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
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National Heart and Lung Institute
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TITLE
      sencode: Encode a string variable non-alphanumerically into a 
numeric variable

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      sencode is an extended version of encode. It takes, as input, a 
string
      variable, and generates, as output, a numeric variable, with 
value labels
      corresponding to values of the string variable. The output 
numeric variable
      may replace the input string variable or be generated as a new 
variable.
      sencode orders the numeric values corresponding to string values 
in the
      sequential order of appearance in the input string variable in 
the data set,
      or in another order specified by the user, instead of ordering 
them in
      alphanumeric order of the string value, as encode does. The 
mapping from
      numeric code values to string labels may be one-to-one (coded in 
order of
      first appearance of the string value) or many-to-one (coded in each
      observation by the position of that observation in the data set, 
or in the
      user-specified ordering).

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 22march2013
      Stata-Version: 10

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      sencode.ado
      sencode.sthlp
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