Stata-misc

Miscellaneous data programs for Stata

• capdrop, capkeep and capds correspond respectively to drop, keep and ds except that no error is returned when some variable is not present in the dataset (while the command still applies to variables in the dataset)

• sorder is a wrapper for sort ; order

• fillall is a version of fillin that accepts multiple variables for id (fillall generates rows for each combination of id1 x id2 in the original dataset)

   fillall, id1(var1 var2) id2(var3)
  

• tsfillall is a version of tsfill that accepts multiple variables for id (tsfill generates rows for missing period within groups defined by id)

   tsfillall id1 id2 time