My guess is more or less the same, based on
just a glance at this.
But on the whole hacking at somebody else's
complicated .do file is nobody's idea of fun,
so unless somebody else wants to volunteer,
the onus is still on you to try to rethink
the logic.
Nick
[email protected]
Raphael Fraser
> May be the solution I was thinking of is not the most efficient. So,
> please allow me to 'lay it on the table.'
> my do-file in short contains the following (hem.do):
>
> tempfile tmp1 tmp2
> use "E:\Data\clinvisDir_3jun05.dta", clear /* id dov dob sex
> geno etc*/
> drop weight height _merge clinic
> keep if cohort==1
> keep if geno==1|geno==34
> recode geno (34=2)
> label define genolbl 1 AA 2 SS
> label values geno genolbl
> sort id dov
> save `tmp1'
>
> use "E:\Data\haem_22jun2005.dta", clear /*id dov hba2 hb hbf etc*/
> drop haem_age micrf nrbc - rdw
> sort id dov
> save `tmp2'
>
> use `tmp1', clear
> merge id dov using `tmp2'
> drop if _merge==2
> drop _merge
>
> rename code c
> rename numb n
>
> * Mark steady state codes as one, zero otherwise
> mark ssc if c==62 | c==111 | c==230 | c==268 | c==369 | /*
> */ c==73 | c==112 | c==231 | c==269 | c==370
>
> label var ssc "Steady state codes"
> label define ssclbl 0 "no" 1 "yes", modify
> label values ssc ssclbl
>
> ** Keep any combination of the above steady state codes
> bysort id dov (ssc): generate flag = ssc[1]
> drop if flag==0
> drop flag
>
> keep if geno==2
> drop if dov >= d(1jan90) /*MY PROBLEM LINE*/
> ** Duplicated hematology over same dates exist (due to merging)
> ** This can over estimate the mean
> collapse (mean) hba2 hb hbf, by(dov id)
>
> ** SS steady state
> collapse (mean) hba2 hb hbf, by(id)
> exit
>
> My challenge is to create the following data set given id and date of
> onset from the above:
>
> id date of onset hba2 hb hbf
> 5 1jan89 x y z
> 5 2jan90 x y z
> 5 2jan96
> 7 11oct97
> 7 8nov99 x y z
>
> Rather than having a single cut off date for all subjects, I need to
> create the mean hba2, hb, hbf up to 1jan89 for the first obs then mean
> hba2, hb, hbf up to 2 jan90 and so on. This is my plight. Can it be
> done?
>
> Raphael
>
>
> On 11/24/05, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Without knowing any more than Svend does what
> > is in Raphael's -hem.do-, it does seem likely
> > that the whole strategy of producing hundreds
> > of little data files and then -append-ing them
> > could be replaced by using just one file and
> > looping over the possibilities in place.
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
> > Svend Juul
> >
> > > Raphael wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a do-file called hem.do which I would like to run.
> But before I
> > > run this do-file I need to drop some observations if dov
> >= d(1jan90).
> > > Hence
> > >
> > > use data, clear
> > > drop if dov >= d(1jan90)
> > > do hem.do
> > > keep if id==5
> > > save newdata1, replace
> > >
> > > I would like to repeat this process about a thousand times with
> > > different dates and ids located in a separate file (SEE
> SNIPPET) then
> > > post to a single file. For example,
> > >
> > > use data, clear
> > > drop if dov >= d(2feb90)
> > > do hem.do
> > > keep if id==5
> > > save newdata2, replace
> > >
> > > use newdata1, clear
> > > forvalues i=2/1000 {
> > > append using newdata`i'
> > > }
> > >
> > > SNIPPET
> > > id date_of_onset
> > > 5 1jan90
> > > 5 2feb90
> > > 5 6jun96
> > > 7 10oct97
> > > 7 25dec99
> > >
> > > Can this be done?
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ----------
> > > --------
> > >
> > > Raphael,
> > >
> > > Take a look at this; it may - or may not - do what you want.
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > > Svend
> > >
> > > // generating testdata
> > > clear
> > > input id str7 sdov
> > > 1 1jan89
> > > 2 2jan96
> > > 5 2jan90
> > > 7 11oct97
> > > end
> > > gen dov=date(sdov,"dmy",2006)
> > > format dov %d
> > > drop sdov
> > > save data , replace
> > >
> > > // generating snippet
> > > clear
> > > input nid str7 sonset
> > > 5 1jan90
> > > 5 2feb90
> > > 5 6jun96
> > > 7 10oct97
> > > 7 25dec99
> > > end
> > > gen onset = date(sonset,"dmy",2006)
> > > format onset %d
> > > drop sonset
> > > local N=_N
> > > save snippet , replace
> > >
> > > // combine them, snippet first; it has `N' observations
> > > append using data
> > > save data2 , replace
> > >
> > > . list
> > >
> > > +----------------------------------+
> > > | nid onset id dov |
> > > |----------------------------------|
> > > 1. | 5 01jan1990 . . |
> > > 2. | 5 02feb1990 . . |
> > > 3. | 5 06jun1996 . . |
> > > 4. | 7 10oct1997 . . |
> > > 5. | 7 25dec1999 . . |
> > > |----------------------------------|
> > > 6. | . . 1 01jan1989 |
> > > 7. | . . 2 02jan1996 |
> > > 8. | . . 5 02jan1990 |
> > > 9. | . . 7 11oct1997 |
> > > +----------------------------------+
> > >
> > > forvalues i=1/`N' {
> > > use data2 , clear
> > > drop if dov >= onset[`i'] & dov < .
> > > do hem.do
> > > keep if id==nid[`i']
> > > save newdata`i' , replace
> > > }
> > >
> > > use newdata1 , clear
> > > forvalues i=2/`N' {
> > > append using newdata`i'
> > > }
> > >
> > > . list
> > >
> > > +------------------------------+
> > > | nid onset id dov |
> > > |------------------------------|
> > > 1. | . . 5 02jan1990 |
> > > 2. | . . 5 02jan1990 |
> > > 3. | . . 7 11oct1997 |
> > > +------------------------------+
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