DESCGEN: Stata module to add Stata dataset attribute variables to a xdir resultsset

Roger Newson

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: descgen is intended for use in output datasets (or resultssets) produced by the xdir package, which have one observation for each of a list of files, and data on directory names and file names. It inputs the file name variable and (optionally) the directory name variable, and generates a list of new variables, containing, in each observation, Stata dataset attributes describing the Stata dataset stored in the corresponding file. These attributes include numbers of variables and observations and sizes of an observation or of the dataset, and (optionally) lists of variables in the dataset. If the corresponding file is not a Stata dataset, then these dataset attribute variables will have missing values.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 16
Keywords: data management; resultssets; xdir (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-03-02, Revised 2020-05-09
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install descgen". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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