[daniel klein]

Dear daniel, I feel that this -xls2dta- command is so helpful. Thus, in addition to its help file, do you have any plan to put more examples (say, with artificial excel files) in a website?

It is not on my agenda.

And, thinking about it, it is not likely to be in the near future. Let me explain.

While I am happy to see that people find xls2dta useful, and I thank you for your supportive feedback, I do not really use the command much myself. This is because I do not usually work with Excel files. It follows that I cannot give any examples from my own experience.

Also, I feel that most of the problems that people report here on Statalist (or privately) mainly concern data manipulations of the converted files. Such manipulations have little to do with xls2dta itself. The latter just makes it simple to apply a given code to a series of files.

Altogether, I believe/hope that xls2dta is fairly easy to use; this is because it does so little on its own. Basically, the command merely replaces a loop over files. While I find this very convenient, I find it hard to come up with examples specific to xls2dta.

Best
Daniel

[River Huang]

Dear daniel, I see, and thank you for the reply.