What are these extra tricks you speak of? I have 78 countries
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> Nick
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: 25 March 2004 17:26
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> > Subject: Re: st: RE: Data manipulation
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> > The countries were listed as variable names in the original
> > data set. When I
> > stacked the data, I was left with only the stack variable,
> > and the data stacked
> > with only one variable name.
> >
> > Justin
> >
> > Quoting Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
> >
> > > Please tell us how country names were held originally.
> > >
> > > Nick
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> > > > I am trying to manipulate my data in the following way: after
> > > > stacking my data
> > > > (and losing the data in memory), I am trying to recover the
> > > > country name. So
> > > > anytime the stack variable is 1 in the dataset, I want to
> > > > input a string into
> > > > another variable called "country", when the stack variable is
> > > > 2 in the dataset,
> > > > I want to input a different string in the "country" variable.
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