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Saving data

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Saving data

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- [Franz] In this session we're going to explore how we can save our data once we're happy with it. However, before we dive into Stata it is very important to recognize that saving data can be much more dangerous than loading data. Stata will overwrite your previous data if you specify the relevant option, and generally you will. It will not ask you "are you sure?" There is no back button in Stata, once your previous data is replaced or overwritten, that's it. Your original data source is gone. Therefore, always work with a copy. I cannot emphasize this enough, and this should always be part of your good data practice. The two commands that matter for saving data in Stata are CD, which is short for current directory, and save, which will save your data. So let's head over to Stata and explore these two. Here we are in the auto data. Imagine that we've just finished some sort of data manipulation exercise, and transformed the auto dataset to our liking. We now want to save a copy of it…

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