If you let me know what is "not quite right"
about -linkplot-, I will think about those
details.
Nick
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David Fisher
> Oops. Yes, that would do it. That was embarrassingly
> simple. Thanks!
> Also, thankyou for the "linkplot" command -- it's pretty much
> exactly what I
> needed, and I've managed to get round the few things that
> weren't quite right.
Nick Cox
> >I think you need to implement this yourself.
> >If you have a variable holding
> >the previous values, then after each change
> >you compare latest version with the previous values;
> >exit if no differences; otherwise replace
> >previous with latest, and loop again.
David Fisher
> > > I am attempting to create a "while" loop that executes,
> amongst other
> > > things, a "replace" command on a particular variable. I
> > > would like this
> > > loop to continue until the "replace" command cannot make any
> > > more changes to
> > > the data. In order to do this I would like to be able to
> > > access the number
> > > of (real) changes made by the "replace" command, so that I
> > > can say something
> > > like "loop while (number of real changes)!=0". Is there a
> > > way to do this in
> > > Stata? I thought there might be an underscore variable that
> > > would do this,
> > > but I can't find one.
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