Re: st: Collapsing with strings

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

woops, the first line got chopped.  I sent:

shouldn't  :
       . merge id using second 
be changed to:
       . merge id using second , update


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: st: Collapsing with strings



> be changed to:
>        . merge id using second , update
>
> Michael Blasnik
> michael.blasnik@verizon.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William Gould, Stata" <wgould@stata.com>
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 9:05 AM
> Subject: Re: st: Collapsing with strings
>
>
>
> > Daphna Bassok asked, 
> > <snip>
> >        . use first, clear
> >        . merge id using second 
> >        . assert _merge==3
> >        . drop _merge 
> >        . append using nondups
> >
> > -- Bill
> > wgould@stata.com
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