----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Joly" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:39 PM
Subject: st: bug in xpose.ado?
> -xpose- seems to object when the _varname variable contains the
> string values v1, v2, ..., vN. For instance,
>
> clear
> set type double
> set obs 10
> g str1 _varname = ""
> replace _varname = "v" + string(_n)
> g myvar = _n
>
> . list
> _varname myvar
> 1. v1 1
> 2. v2 2
> 3. v3 3
> 4. v4 4
> 5. v5 5
> 6. v6 6
> 7. v7 7
> 8. v8 8
> 9. v9 9
> 10. v10 10
>
> (the actual values of myvar are irrelevant, as long as myvar is a
> numerical variable)
>
> . xpose, clear
> v1 already defined
> r(110);
>
> However, v1 appears only once within _varname. The only restriction on
> the values of _varname is that they must be 'legal' names (right?) and
> v1 is a perfectly legal name.
>
Perhaps the problem is not the values of the variable but the variable name.
If you rename _varname xpose seems to work.
. clear
. set type double
. set obs 10
obs was 0, now 10
. g str1 _varname = ""
(10 missing values generated)
. replace _varname = "v" + string(_n)
_varname was str1 now str3
(10 real changes made)
. g myvar = _n
. renpfix _v v
. xpose, clear
. list
v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6
v7 v8 v9 v10
1. . . . . . .
. . . .
2. 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10
Scott
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