Bug fix: vec() could crash in a specific case with a column vector dataframe. Bug fix: saved() would save dataframe columns as their numeric key value when saving to Excel files. Bug fix: The Package Manager wo
A float variable (or a double, according to set type) is created if the result is numeric, and a string variable is created if the result is a string. In the latter case, if the string variable contains values greater than 2,045 characters or contains values with a binary 0 (\0), ...
or you can access it via the menu Data -> Create or change data -> Other variable-transformation commands -> Convert variables from string to numeric) The Stata documentation is very good; you could for example answer this question by typing: search convert string Also take a look at chapte...
A float variable (or a double, according to set type) is created if the result is numeric, and a string variable is created if the result is a string. In the latter case, if the string variable contains values greater than 2,045 characters or contains values with a binary 0 (\0), ...