Mauricio Caceres Bravo

@mdroste While I _have_ come to see the value in adding strings to gcollapse, it seems to me to be _way_ too much work. 1. Given the way gcollapse was...

I wouldn't want to do the decoding/encoding internally, though. It would be much easier for me if the user did that externally (and much more transparent about what is happening;...

@sergiocorreia I won't have Stata 16 any time soon, though, so I wouldn't be able to test that out. However, it does seem like a better solution for users who...

It doesn't allow `if` either. I think this is the way to go (though it doesn't account for missing values or multiple targets, but I think it's an OK workaround):...

Please give the output of ``` gtools ```

Sorry, I meant the output of running ``` which gtools gtools ```

Can you tell me your OS and Stata versions?

Are you on a server or just a regular Windows 8 machine?

(Not 100% what you mean by "network"). Anyway, I wonder if it is related to [this bug](https://github.com/mcaceresb/stata-gtools/issues/35). It's a bit of a different situation since that was back when I...

I do recall somebody else reporting that gtools stopped working after a Windows Server security update. All gtools commands use temporary files, but none require any special permissions to run....