At 11:11 PM 9/21/2005, NEYMOTIN, FLORENCE wrote:
Hi, is it normal to have a problem with recoding things to missing
values based on some sort of boolean condition. I checked the
condition several times, and when I write: "gen extra=0
if(condition)" then this gives me the correct values. If, however, I
write: "replace mainvar=. if (condition)" then this does not
work. The problem was solved by doing "replace mainvar=.a" this
seems strange to me and I'm not sure why it's happening. any suggestions?
thanks,
Florence
Maybe you could show us your exact commands? Or a replicable example
using the auto data or something like that? I just tried a few things
and it seemed to work fine. Are you sure you are specifying the
conditions correctly, e.g. you are using == instead of = ?
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