st: New version of -factmerg- on SSC

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

Thanks yet again to Kit Baum, a new version of the -factmerg- 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 -factmerg-.

The -factmerg- package is described as below on my website. The new 
version has been upgraded to Stata Version 11, and now requires the 
Stata Version 11 -sdecode- package )also downloadable from SSC) in order 
to work. It therefore now decodes factor values with all the power of 
-sdecode-, including exponent substitution. This will be especially 
useful for merging continuous factors, as used in the reference-spline 
models enabled by the SSC package -bspline-.

Users of Stata Versions 10, 9, 8 and 7 who wish to download the old 
Stata Version 10 and Stata Version 7 versions of -factmerg- can still 
download them from my website. In Stata, type

net describe factmerg, from(http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10)

to view the Stata Version 10 version, or

net describe factmerg, from(http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata7)

to view the Stata Version 7 version. The user can then install the 
appropriate old version of -factmerg-.

Best wishes

Roger

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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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TITLE
      factmerg: Merge a list of factors to create string variables

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      factmerg takes, as input, a list of variables (numeric or string),
      representing discrete factors in a model.  It creates, as output,
      one to three string variables, containing, in each observation, a
      value, a factor name or a factor variable label, respectively,
      copied from the first factor variable in the input variable list
      with a non-missing value for that observation.  factmerg requires
      the SSC package sdecode in order to work.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 19april2013
      Stata-Version: 11

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