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. 公卫论坛
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

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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

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missing values.

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