descgen

descgen: Add Stata dataset attribute variables to a xdir resultsset

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
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.

公卫家园

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

公卫百科

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.

Author: Roger Newson
Distribution-Date: 02march2017
Stata-Version: 10