downloading .csv.gz files.

[Sumedha Gupta]

Dear All,
I want to download some .cvs.gz files from a Github repository, unzip and save as .dta files. I am trying to run:

       foreach d in 22 26 29{
  2.         if `d'<=9 local space "0"
  3.         if `d'>9 local space "" 
  4.         clear
  5.         !gunzip -c "https://githubusercontent.com/COVIDExposureIndices/COVIDExposureIndices/master/lex_data
> /county_lex_2020-08-`space'`d'.csv" -> "G:\My Drive\Data\placeiq\rawdata\county_lex_2020-08-`spa
> ce'`d'.dta", replace 
  6.                 }

A .dta file with the specified name is created but its empty! Not sure what I am doing wrong. I have used the same method to previously import .csv files from the same github page... so it could be that something goes wrong in gunzip? I wish had more information to post... but I get no error message... just an empty file.
Will be grateful for any insights others may have to offer.
Sincerely,
Sumedha.

[William Lisowski]

First, for some reason my web browser is unable to locate the server "https://githubusercontent.com" so I'm shooting in the dark here.

I want to download some .cvs.gz files from a Github repository, unzip and save as .dta files. I am trying to run:

Assuming you mean to download a .csv.gz file, it takes more than unzipping it into a file with a .dta suffix to turn it into a Stata dataset. You can download a csv file into a csv file, and then use import delimited to read it into a Stata dataset, and then save to write the dataset from memory into a .dta file.

[Sumedha Gupta]

Thank you so much Lisowski! of course... it worked perfectly once I unzipped to csv and then imported to .dta format.