David, thanks for your help - this is great. But I'm
getting an error message:
. forvalues i=1/3 {
2. egen tot`i' = anycount(v*), v(`i')
3. }
unrecognized command: _ganycount
r(199);
I'm using Vers 8? Do you know what the error is?
Many thanks,
Buddy
--- David Harrison <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wow, tougher than it looks at first, but how's
> this...
>
> David
>
> . list
>
> +----------------------------+
> | id apple pear orange |
> |----------------------------|
> 1. | 1 2 3 1 |
> 2. | 2 1 2 3 |
> 3. | 3 2 2 3 |
> 4. | 4 3 1 3 |
> 5. | 5 3 1 1 |
> +----------------------------+
>
> . drop id
>
> . xpose, clear v
>
> . list
>
> +-----------------------------------+
> | v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 _varname |
> |-----------------------------------|
> 1. | 2 1 2 3 3 apple |
> 2. | 3 2 2 1 1 pear |
> 3. | 1 3 3 3 1 orange |
> +-----------------------------------+
>
> . forvalues i=1/3 {
> 2. egen tot`i' = anycount(v*), v(`i')
> 3. }
>
> . drop v*
>
> . list
>
> +-------------------------------+
> | _varname tot1 tot2 tot3 |
> |-------------------------------|
> 1. | apple 1 2 2 |
> 2. | pear 2 2 1 |
> 3. | orange 2 0 3 |
> +-------------------------------+
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of buddyb
> Sent: 22 June 2006 17:11
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Matrix? Stack? Reshape? Xpose?
>
> Maybe let me explain what I need like this...
>
> Currently I have 5 respondents and 3 variables
> (apple, pear, oarnge)
> coded as 1 2 3 . My data set looks like
> this:
>
> ID apple pear orange
> 1 2 3 1
> 2 1 2 3
> 3 2 2 3
> 4 3 1 3
> 5 3 1 1
>
>
> What I want to do is to sort of transpose this so
> that I would get the
> following data table so that it adds up how many 1s
> 2s and 3s that each
> of my variables (apple, pear and oarnge) received:
>
> 1 2 3
>
> apple 1 2 2
> pear 2 2 1
> orange 2 0 3
>
>
> Any ideas on what this is called or how to do it?
>
> Thanks, Buddy
>
>
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