st: Re: encode string in batch way

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Prefix the command that gives you trouble with capture, and the loop  
will keep running.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
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On Sep 21, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Jia wrote:


> However, you know, there are numerous problems in the file like this,
> and I try to encode them a batch way.
> label define yesno 0 "N" 1 "Y"
> forvalue i=1(1)614 {
> encode v`i', gen(vv`i') label(yesno)
> drop v`i'
> rename vv`i' v`i'
> }
>
> Then I was informed
> not possible with numeric variable
> r(107);
> end of do-file
> r(107);
>
>
> Can you help me out? Since there are numerous similar problems,
> dealing with them one by one is really annoying.
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