We are going to look into how to change the working directory or your working folder in Stata. First, we need to understand what a working directory or a working folder is. For defining purposes, it is the current folder where our data files, do files, and example files are present. It is the directory …
In this article, we are going to learn how to Delete a File, Create a Folder and Delete a Folder in Stata. We do have to work with files that are in our hard drives. For deleting file on a hard drive, we have two commands. The “erase” command can be used if we are …
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To copy a file from one directory to another or from one folder to another in Stata, we use the “copy” command. If we want to copy “image.png” from Folder1 to Folder2, then we will use the following command copy “D:\copy file\folder1\image.png” “D:\copy file\folder2\” Once executed, this command would copy the image in the Folder …
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Drop and Keep commands are used for dropping or keeping the variables. These commands can also be used to drop values of certain variables. They both work somewhat similarly except for one difference these two commands are two phases of the same kind, i.e., you either drop certain variables or keep those variables. For the …
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Do you need to round off or remove decimal numbers in Stata and do not know how to make it work? No need to worry! Today, on The Data Hall, we are doing exactly that. We are going to work on rounding off decimal numbers through several functions. By the end of this article we …
